Travis Fimmel, Simon Baker, Phoebe Tonkin, Bryan Brown, and Anthony La Paglia will bring Trent Dalton's 'Boy Swallows Universe' to life for Netflix, with production on the eight-part series now underway in Brisbane.
Stan has announced the next slate of documentary titles to screen under its Revealed banner, with four new projects featuring the work of directors Julie Kalceff, Janine Hosking and Gracie Otto set to debut on the streamer next year.
Shout Factory distribution and production arm Shout! Studios has taken up North American rights to Jacob and Ben Burghart's 'Head Count', a neo-Western thriller being produced by Victorian-based Continuance Pictures and starring Aaron Jakubenko, Melanie Zanetti, and Ryan Kwanten.
Veterans Film Festival and the Australian Film Television and Radio School have come together to launch a world-first program designed to recruit, train and mentor defence veterans in film and television industry roles.
Editor-turned-director Sean Lahiff's environmental horror/thriller 'Carnifex' and Brenda Matthews and Nathaniel Schmidt's feature doc 'The Last Daughter' will each screen at the Adelaide Film Festival in October.
New seasons of 'Total Control' and children's titles 'Rock Island Mysteries' and 'Strange Chores', as well as feature film projects from Northern Pictures, Made Up Stories and Causeway Films are among the nine projects that will share in $12 million of production funding from Screen Australia.
You won't see Marvel films or 'Star Wars' playing at Melbourne's Cinema Nova, something co-founder Natalie Miller jokes is "either clever or stupid, I'm not sure which". For 30 years, the Carlton cinema has carved a niche by sticking to its brand of arthouse cinema programming, and is today the largest independent cinema in the Southern Hemisphere.
Australians in Film and Screen Australia have revealed the six participants for this year's Untapped development lab, drawing from nearly 400 entries.