WIFT NSW is calling for entries to the 19th WOW Film Festival screening 5th to 8th March 2013
CATE Shortland will be awarded the prize for Best Director at TheWIFTS Foundation 2012 International Visionary Awards for her work on Lore.
Internationally acclaimed actress and director Rachel Griffiths (Saving Mr Banks, Paper Giants, Six Feet Under) is Patron for WOW Film Festival 2014, celebrating the 20th anniversary.
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'.
Women in Film and Television (WIFT NSW) has launched an Australian chapter of Raising Films in partnership with the UK-based not-for-profit organisation.
The state branches of Women in Film & Television (WIFT) are set to form an alliance under a national banner, WIFT Australia, in a move designed amplify advocacy efforts towards gender parity in the Australian screen industry.
Over a year ago, the Weinstein allegations ignited the momentum of the #MeToo movement. Since then there has been an overwhelming shift in conversations around gender, sexual harassment and diversity. The exposure of the pain and damage of abuse is unprecedented. This has also given rise to fear and uncertainty about what to do next. I think it is timely to recall the words of #Metoo founder Tarana Burke, who describes one of the specific purposes of the movement as radical community healing, writes WIFT Australia chair Katrina Irawati Graham.
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'.