JJ Winlove’s heartfelt comedy 'June Again' will have a simultaneous North American theatrical and video-on-demand release in January after being snapped up by Samuel Goldwyn Films.
High-profile talent on both sides of camera punctuate the four feature films, three television dramas, and one virtual reality project that will share in more than $6.5 million of production funding from Screen Australia.
In the heartfelt comedy 'June Again', a twist of fate gives family matriarch June (Noni Hazlehurst) a reprieve from a debilitating illness
Screenwest will help fund the development of six new features from creatives including Alison James, Roderick MacKay, Zak Hilditch, Ben Young, Martin Wilson and Stephen McCallum.
Serial procrastinator Teddy (Rafe Spall) who thinks he has all the time in the world. But after an odd encounter with a stranger (Noni Hazlehurst), he wakes up the morning after his wedding to discover that he's jumped forward a year in his life to his first anniversary.
Expat Australian filmmakers in Los Angeles and London are coping as best they can through the COVID-19 pandemic, including supporting each other.
"The best way to get people to go to the cinema is to embrace the point of difference from television, enhance the cinematic scale of the work and create narrative experiences that are immersive." - Robert Connolly
Isabel Lucas, Hunter Page-Lochard, Lily Sullivan and US actor Bobbi Salvor Menuez ('Transparent', 'Nocturnal Animals') lead the ensemble cast of Daniel Askill's debut feature film, a currently untitled psychological thriller.