Animal Logic has launched Truant Pictures with the mission to produce genre films in Australia with Australian creatives for international audiences.
Writer-director Zak Hilditch got the intense, dramatic look he wanted on his debut feature, “These Final Hours,†at Deluxe’s DDP Studios.
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.
Australian directors working on productions in the US get far more time, money and resources than they were accustomed to at home.
Financing feature films is going to be even harder after the pandemic, prompting Truant Pictures' Toby Nalbandian and Greg Schmidt to offer some practical advice to genre filmmakers.
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.
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.
The post-apocalyptic short took home four awards overnight