Jack Clark and Jim Weir's 'Birdeater', with its echoes of 'Wake in Fright', joins Australia's recent indie success stories. After snaring Sydney Film Festival's Audience Award, their debut feature - made on a shoestring - sold out all its sessions at the Melbourne International Film Festival, landed distribution with Umbrella and simply generated a significant amount of buzz.
Ivan Sen's 'Limbo' and Noora Niasari's 'Shayda' have joined the Australian contingent bound for this year's Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), announced as part of the event's centrepiece program.
Former Sex Discrimination Commissioner Kate Jenkins will head up the Federal Government's Creative Workplaces Council, a new body designed to help raise and set industry standards across the arts.
Murray Enders' 'Dive', Julian Curtis' 'The Long Passeggiata', Lauren Burgueno's 'Aysha', and Liubov Korpusova's 'Marj’s Garden' have been selected for Campari's Posters to Production initiative.
An animated comedy series about a community of bogong moths tempted away from their annual migrations by a suburb of low-income humans has impressed at the Just for Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal, triumphing Stand Up and Pitch competition.
Concerns about power imbalances and toxic working environments in the film and TV industries long pre-date the emergence of #metoo as a global rallying cry against sexual assault and harassment on set.
The exploits of brown-wearing probate lawyer Helen Tudor-Fisk are heading to Britain, with ITV acquiring 'Fisk' for its streaming platform ITVX.
Over-qualified staff at a dingy bowling alley, a kooky children's arts presenter that struggles to teach morals to a new generation, and a down-and-out private investigator are among the subjects of this year's successful Fresh Blood concepts.