Director, actor, and producer Ron Howard is set to take part in next month's Screen Forever alongside long-time producing partner Bill Connor.
At the Australian International Movie Convention late last year, filmmaker Christopher Amos noted there was one genre that seemed to be absent from the distributor presentations: documentary. The observation prompted him to acquire the Academy Award-nominated 'Four Daughters', due in cinemas this Thursday.
The Australian Film Television and Radio School has welcomed filmmaker and writer Tracey Rigney as its second artist-in-residence.
Almost the day after production wrapped on 'Ali's Wedding' in 2016, Osamah Sami pitched Matchbox Pictures his next project, one that would once again see him draw on his experiences as the son of a lead cleric, but was instead a drama that showed his community in "all its realism".
"It was really important to me that if the show was going to be exploring divergent thinking and neurodiversity we have talent and creatives with that lived experience contributing behind the scenes."
Screen Producers Australia has announced that comedian and actress Magda Szubanski will deliver the Hector Crawford Memorial Lecture at next month's Screen Forever conference.
AACTA has announced the ten finalists for its national youth casting call, run in collaboration with Casting Networks and the Casting Guild of Australia.
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.