Producer Helen Leake has been appointed to the Screen Australia board for a three-year term.
Greg Mclean's Wolf Creek 2 opened in 10 cinemas in the US last Friday, one month after being released on Video-on-Demand platforms.
The profile of Australian films in the US looks set to rise in the next two months with the debuts of Wolf Creek 2, The Railway Man and Tracks.
The long-standing etiquette among filmmakers here and internationally is that they don't usually bad mouth each other's work.
Australia's most watched film reviewers, Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton, have refused to review Wolf Creek 2 despite the film nabbing the top spot in last weekend's box office.
John Jarratt's serial killer Mick Taylor squared off against Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch, Eric Bana and Emile Hirsch as Navy SEALs in Afghanistan in Australian cinemas last weekend.
Wolf Creek and Django Unchained's John Jarratt has written and plans to star in an Aussie comedy Western.
Craig Lahiff's thriller Swerve will debut in the US on December 6 at five cinemas, screening at prime locations in New York City, Los Angeles, San Diego, Atlanta and Houston.