Blackfella Films producer Darren Dale has been appointed Sydney Film Festival (SFF) board chair, taking over from Deanne Weir, who has announced her retirement after eight years on the board.
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.
The Travelling Film Festival will bring a celebration of cinema to Newcastle with a brand-new program direct from the Sydney...
Sustainable Screens Australia has provided a progress report that indicates producers will soon be able to use the UK-developed, BAFTA-owned albert emissions calculator and toolkit to lessen the negative impact of production on the environment.
Warwick Thornton’s latest feature, the 1940s-set 'The New Boy', sees Cate Blanchett star as a renegade nun, Sister Eileen, who runs a mission for Aboriginal children.
Angus McDonald's 'Freedom is Beautiful' follows the journey of Kurdish refugees, Farhad Bandesh and Mostafa Azimitabar, who were finally freed from detention after being imprisoned for almost eight years under Australia’s offshore processing regime.