This year's AACTA Award for Best Film will be a contest between Baz Luhrmann’s 'Elvis', George Miller’s 'Three Thousand Years of Longing', Leah Purcell’s 'The Drover's Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson', Thomas M. Wright's 'The Stranger', Western Sydney anthology feature 'Here Out West', and Hannah Barlow and Kane Senes' horror 'Sissy'.
Victoria's ongoing flood emergency has impacted production on Matthew Holmes' period shark thriller 'Fear Below', with cast and crew forced to evacuate from where they were shooting just outside of Moama.
With Deanne Weir and Olivia Humphrey's Storyd Group, Dollhouse Pictures is developing a feature film based on Hannah Kent novel 'Devotion'.
AACTA has announced the nominees for its technical craft awards, with Baz Luhrmann's 'Elvis' leading the charge in film, nominated in all nine categories, while 'Mystery Road: Origin' is ahead in television with six nods.
The Australian Centre for the Moving Image will welcome Keri Elmsly as executive director of programming next month, following a global recruitment process.
John Sheedy's 'Tarneit' has beaten a field of 35 global shorts to become the fourth Australian winner of the Iris Prize.
Michael Myers and Laurie Strode's final showdown proved the main attraction at the box office last weekend.
In partnership with Sony, AACTA has announced the five finalists for its Pitch: Focus initiative, which aims to give student filmmakers the opportunity to create an original production with industry mentorship and funding support.