Marks Coles Smith and Brenton Thwaites have joined Daisy Ridley in the cast of Zak Hilditch's 'We Bury the Dead', as filming on the survival thriller gets underway in Western Australia.
'Star Wars' actress Daisy Ridley will head to WA early next year for 'We Bury the Dead', a new survival-thriller film from Zak Hilditch that will be filmed in the state's great southern region.
Screenwest’s West Coast Visions funding, which backs debut feature directors from WA, has proven to be one of the country’s most effective talent escalators. From this year onward, Screen Australia will commit an extra $500,000 to the initiative annually. IF talks to recent recipients, the teams behind 'He Ain't Heavy', now in post, and 'Birthright', now fully financed and set to enter production later this year.
Justin Kurzel's 'Nitram' has added another award to its festival run, crowned the winner of the $100,000 CinefestOZ film prize on Saturday evening.
Actress Isla Fisher, director Zak Hilditch, producer Judi Levine, and filmmaker Julia Redwood will make up the jury for next week's CinefestOZ Film Festival.
Screenwest will help fund the development of six new features from creatives including Alison James, Roderick MacKay, Zak Hilditch, Ben Young, Martin Wilson and Stephen McCallum.
After trying to find ways to reconfigure 'Airborne', a prescient thriller set during a mid-flight pandemic, Zak Hilditch has given up, conceding COVID-19 is far more lethal and scarier than the scenario he envisaged.
Australian directors working on productions in the US get far more time, money and resources than they were accustomed to at home.