Australian film
Sweet Country wins top prize at the Directors Guild Awards
Almost two years after acclaim at the Venice Film Festival, Warwick Thornton's outback western has won yet another award.
- by Garry Maddox
Latest
Miranda Tapsell's Top End Wedding takes the rom-com into new Territory
Write what you know, they say, and for Miranda Tapsell that meant an Indigenous romantic comedy that's also a love letter to her native Northern Territory.
- by Karl Quinn
Australian film
Baz Luhrmann heading home to Australia for Elvis movie
The director of such hits as Strictly Ballroom and Moulin Rouge! is shooting a biopic of The King in Queensland.
- by Garry Maddox
Australian film
Northern beaches comedy to open Sydney Film Festival
Bryan Brown, Sam Neill, Richard E. Grant and Greta Scacchi are among the ensemble cast of new Australian film Palm Beach.
- by Garry Maddox
Cinema
Life is still busy over 70 for stars of new 'triumph over ageing' film
A warm-hearted comedy shooting in Adelaide, featuring Jack Thompson and Jacki Weaver, is aimed at more mature cinema-goers.
- by Garry Maddox
Opinion
Opinion
Great ideas to save Oz film and TV, but government just isn't listening
A Senate committee tabled its report on the future of film and TV production in this country last week. Just don't expect the government to respond.
- by Karl Quinn
Jane Campion
Australian female directors to be featured in 66th Sydney Film Festival
In the first announced component for the festival, 10 films by renowned Australian female filmmakers will be featured in this year's program.
- by Sarah Keoghan
Australian film
New doco looks at capitalism on the doorstep of WA's Kimberley region
A new documentary is looking at the future of the Kimberley as mining and farming come knocking on its door.
- by staff writers
Cinema
'Extraordinary': Final Red Dog film pays tribute to a beloved kelpie
The end of the trilogy will be the story of a dog who touched people's lives after becoming a movie star.
- by Garry Maddox
LGBT
Tropfest film director inspired to bring diversity to the big screen
Growing up in a Lebanese-Indian household, Leela Varghese remembers watching films and thinking ethnically-diverse kids were token characters.
- by Josh Dye
Exclusive
Ben Mendelsohn
'Delightfully bent': Ben Mendelsohn shoots a new Australian film
The star of Rogue One, Ready Player One and the coming Captain Marvel is shooting the "bittersweet comedy" Babyteeth.
- by Garry Maddox