WIFT NSW stormed the AACTA Awards last night, with a dozen members tumbling out of the back of a van and onto the red carpet – dressed as sausages to protest the male dominance of the country's film and television industry. Below, WIFT member and filmma
Aussie director and writer Amanda Brotchie was in Los Angeles in January, her base for the past 18 months, when her friend and occasional collaborator Michael Rymer asked if she was interested in directing an episode of Foxtel’s 'Picnic at Hanging Rock'.
An Australian female director is set to join FremantleMedia’s 'Picnic at Hanging Rock', following on from industry criticism over the hire of a foreign director to shoot the series.
The spot, made to introduce Land Rover as the new sponsor of the Brumbies, was shot by DP Ashleigh Carter for director Brett Danton.
Producer Carolyn Johnson and director Catriona McKenzie are the inaugural recipients of the SAFC's Doing It Differently development initiative for their screen adaptation of Patricia Cornelius’ play, 'Love'.
Off the back of last year's Raising Films Australia survey, which surveyed parents and carers about their experiences working in the screen industry, Create NSW has introduced a series of new initiatives - similar to those recently implemented by the South Australian Film Corporation (SAFC).
Who says stunt work in films and TV is predominantly a man’s world? Not the folks at Women in Film and TV NSW, who are keen to blow up that idea by staging a female-led stunts and film workshop in Sydney next month.
A Diversity in Australian Media forum in Sydney next week will highlight how much progress the screen industry has made over the past 10 years in better reflecting Australia's diverse society - and how much remains to be done.