Cate Blanchett will produce and star in a new film from writer-director Warwick Thornton set to begin shooting in South Australia later this year.
Newcomer Aswan Reid will make his screen debut alongside Cate Blanchett, Deborah Mailman and Wayne Blair in Warwick Thornton's 'The New Boy', which wraps this week in South Australia.
Warwick Thornton's screenplay for The New Boy and Colin and Cameron Cairnes' screenplay for Late Night with the Devil have both been nominated for the $30,000 Betty Roland Prize for Scriptwriting through the 2024 NSW Premier's Literary Award.
“The opening sequence is not a wide shot; it's a shot of a billy can boiling. The black tea goes in and then the white sugar goes in, and it all gets boiled together; it's a metaphor for the landscape and the society and a time and a place.”
AACTA has announced more than 70 of the events that will form part of its inaugural festival, including talks with Danny and Michael Philippou, Warwick Thornton and Celeste Barber.
Warwick Thornton won the Golden Frog at the Camerimage Film Festival in Poland over the weekend for his cinematography on 'The New Boy', which he also wrote and directed.
NSW and ACT cinematographers are gearing up for their annual state awards
Newly-appointed Screen Australia head of First Nations Angela Bates is taking an 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it' approach to the role, insisting her focus is on furthering the strides made by her predecessors.