It’s an all too familiar story: Australian films open in a handful of cinemas with minimal marketing and publicity and audiences don’t go because they don’t know where or when these films are playing.
"A big theme in this is the body, and our relationships to our bodies - the characters are grappling in different ways with their bodies betraying them."
Baz Luhrmann has cast Olivia DeJonge, who starred in the Netflix series 'The Society' and M. Night Shyamalan's horror movie 'The Visit', as Priscilla Presley in the Elvis Presley biopic which will shoot in Queensland early next year.
Some 34 feature films will compete for nominations for this year's AACTA Awards, and the longlist covers diverse range of titles, from box office earners like 'Top End Wedding' and 'Storm Boy', through to the critically lauded 'The Nightingale' and micro budget indies like 'Suburban Wildlife'.
Five Australian films have been invited to the 73rd edition of the Edinburgh International Film Festival, which runs from June 19 – 30 .
Struggling to cope after losing her unborn child, photo-journalist Claire becomes increasingly obsessed with Angie, a pregnant young woman Claire suspects of having an affair with her husband, AFL player and mentor Dan. It’s an obsession that could put both women in danger, but the deeper Claire digs, the more unsettling her discoveries become.
Five films supported by the MIFF Premiere Fund including Thomas M. Wright’s directorial debut 'Acute Misfortune' and Sue Thomson’s 'The Coming Back Out Ball Movie' will have their world premieres at the 67th Melbourne International Film Festival.
The thriller will see writer-director Miranda Nation reunite with producer Lyn Norfor, of Emerald Productions, and DP Bonnie Elliott ('Spear').