INDUSTRY / FIVE AUSTRALIAN FILMMAKERS SECURE SXSW SLOTS

Three women filmmakers and works steeped in indigenous culture are headed to SXSW, amongst the five Australian films selected in the 2021 programs (Click here)
Three women filmmakers and works steeped in indigenous culture are headed to SXSW, amongst the five Australian films selected in the 2021 programs (Click here)
Films from all corners of the globe are honoured by the various IFFR juries in Rotterdam overnight (Click here)
New films from Isabelle Huppert, Romain Duris, Quentin Dupieux, Omar Sy and Gerard Depardieu, plus a restored classic from French cinema's defining moment, are just a fraction of what's on offer at the 2021 Alliance Francais French Film Festival (Click here)
Through their talent initiative Impact Creative Systems, Hollywood heavyweights Ron Howard and Brian Grazer will foster below-the-line talent during their Gold Coast shoot of Thirteen Lives (Click here)
After three introspective dramas, filmmaker Sandra Sciberras decided she needed to exorcise her urge to make a genre pic. The result - the outback-set alien invasion pic The Dustwalker (Click here)
Spokespeople for the ADS community are fired up over singer/choreographer Sia's directorial debut, a drama featuring neurotypical actress Maggie Ziegler as a non-verbal autistic teen (Click here)
Alessio Liguori's monster-movie Shortcut offers just enough narrative ambition to save it from being condemned to 'teen splatter' obscurity (Click here)
One of Europe's most vocal supporters of women and non-binary filmmakers is going global come February 2021 (Click here)
Europe's most progressive major film festival, IFFR will host the World Premiere of Jonathan Ogilvie's future-set surveillance thriller, Lone Wolf, starring Hugo Weaving and Tilda Cobham-Hervey (Click here)
Even in a year when all around them ground to a halt, filmmakers found the time to make some great and some not-so-great film. Guess which camp Robert Downey Jr.'s Dolittle sits in...? (Click here)
Over two frenzied days of high-brow pondering, critic's bodies in Los Angeles and New York drew some lines in the cinematic sand with regard to who needs considering come Oscar time (Click here)
A feature-length documentary, virtual reality project and award-winning short will represent the Australian film sector at the world's biggest indie film celebration (Click here)
Filmmakers, musicians, artists, authors and the fans who love them are mourning the death of one of the loudest advocates for pop culture creativity, with Mike 'McBeardo' McPadden passing away (Click here)
A new independent feature from regionally-based director Victoria Wharfe McIntyre presents a version of the Indigenous experience never before seen on our screens (Click here).
No COVID-dictated move to online sessions was going to stop the North Hollywood Cinefest from presenting the best in global long- and short-form cinema (Click here)