Alena Lodkina's sophomore feature 'Petrol' has been selected for Locarno’s Cineasti del Presente (‘directors of the present’) program, dedicated to first and second features by emerging global talents.
Australian comedy/drama feature 'A Cup of Tea' is one of three prize winners from this year's Attagirl global film incubator, receiving $5,000 for development.
Production assistant and journalist Gina Song and writer and script editor Madeleine Ruskin are the recipients of this year's Victorian Screen Development internships.
Bentley Dean’s 2009 documentary 'Contact' marked the beginning of the director’s working relationship with editor Tania Nehme, which has also spanned 'First Footprints, 'A Sense of Self', Oscar-nominated feature film 'Tanna', and more recently, 'Facing Monsters' and 'Amongst Us – Neo Nazi Australia'.
Leah Purcell will take her talents to New Zealand's North Island in September after being announced as the inaugural Māoriland Filmmaker in Residence.
Screenworks has outlined a Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) to coincide with NAIDOC Week, joining a network of more than 1,100 corporate, government, and not-for-profit organisations that have made a formal commitment to reconciliation through the
RAP program.
With school holidays starting around the country and a diversity of blockbusters in release, cinemas around Australia have experienced their best weekend of 2022.
'Top Gun: Maverick' star Jennifer Connelly and British actor Ben Whishaw will lead the cast of the upcoming New Zealand film 'Bad Behaviour', appearing alongside writer/director Alice Englert.