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'.
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.
The Australian Cinematographers Society, the Australian Writers' Guild and the Australian Screen Editors Guild are among the recipients of the South Australian Film Corporation’s (SAFC) new audience and industry development grants.
WIFT Australia members based in WA are invited to apply for a nine-day writing retreat led by screenwriter and director Miley Tunnecliffe that will be held in the state's south west next month.
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'.
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.