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.
Expat Australian filmmakers in Los Angeles and London are coping as best they can through the COVID-19 pandemic, including supporting each other.
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.
'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.
Animal Logic has launched Truant Pictures with the mission to produce genre films in Australia with Australian creatives for international audiences.
The post-apocalyptic short took home four awards overnight
After directing '1922', a gothic drama adapted from a Stephen King story for Netflix, Zak Hilditch plans to write and direct a thriller set during a pandemic in Perth.
Writer/director Renée Webster and producers Tania Chambers of Feisty Dame Productions and Judi Levine of Such Much Films are the recipients of Screenwest's 2019 West Coast Visions initiative.