A film nearly ten years in the making, shot across Scotland and Canada, has come to completion in Sydney.
Feature film 'The Drovers Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson', upcoming series 'First Weapons', and SBS Digital Original 'Latecomers' are among the titles that will be unpacked as part of this year's Screenworks Regional to Global Screen Forum.
Ivan Sen's 'Limbo' and Rolf de Heer's 'Survival of Kindness' will be in the mix for the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival next month, the first Australian films to screen in the official competition since 2006's 'Candy'.
Screen Australia will shortly begin a recruitment process for a new CEO, after Graeme Mason announced to staff yesterday he will leave the agency in November at the end of his second term.
In North America, Paramount's 'Babylon' has been labelled a box office bomb. Australian audiences, so far at least, seem to be a little more enthused by Damien Chazelle's starry latest about the excess of 1920s Hollywood.
Danny and Michael Philippou's debut feature 'Talk To Me' should attract the attention of genre-focused international buyers, according to Sundance critics.
Writer-director Noora Niasari's 'Shayda' has been hailed by reviewers at the Sundance Film Festival as a powerful, gripping and affecting debut.
The festive spirit is still alive and well in Queensland, as production begins on Madeleine Dyer's debut feature 'A Savage Christmas'.