Jack Clark and Jim Weir's 'Birdeater', with its echoes of 'Wake in Fright', joins Australia's recent indie success stories. After snaring Sydney Film Festival's Audience Award, their debut feature - made on a shoestring - sold out all its sessions at the Melbourne International Film Festival, landed distribution with Umbrella and simply generated a significant amount of buzz.
Umbrella Entertainment has hired former New Zealand Film Commission head of marketing Jasmin McSweeney to help expand its footprint across the Ditch.
Writer-director Kosta Nikas and veteran producer Mike Wilcox are teaming up for Crooked Chef, a romantic comedy which centres on a bunch of gangsters who take over a TV cooking show.
Writer-director Imogen Thomas’ family drama 'Emu Runner' and Tony D’Aquino’s female-driven survival thriller 'The Furies' opened in limited sessions on a handful of screens last weekend.
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Fledgling filmmaker Fergus Grady is planning a movie based on Lonely Planet founders Tony and Maureen Wheeler's adventures and he has shot the pilot for a half-hour TV comedy/drama.
Marks Coles Smith and Brenton Thwaites have joined Daisy Ridley in the cast of Zak Hilditch's 'We Bury the Dead', as filming on the survival thriller gets underway in Western Australia.
The closure of cinemas in Australia, the US and many other markets is resulting in a steady stream of movies going straight to digital platforms.