DNSW
Conversations

Meet the Finalists for AACTA Pitch: ACTION!

AFI | AACTA

Our first acting competition, AACTA Pitch: ACTION! asked Australians in isolation to try out their acting skills by submitting a screen-test style audition, based on an AACTA provided script, inspired by current circumstances.
Conversations

Lorin Clarke on MONSTER BEACH

AFI | AACTA

Cartoon Network is set to launch their biggest local production yet: MONSTER BEACH! Written, directed and produced in Australia, MONSTER BEACH follows the frightfully funny adventures of surf-siblings Jan and Dean, enjoying an endless summer vacation with their laidback uncle and a bunch of mischievous, thrill-seeking monsters.
Conversations

Meet the finalists for AACTA Pitch: Regional Landscapes in partnership with Screenworks

AFI | AACTA

Get to know the creative writers behind the five shortlisted pitches vying for the chance to win the national feature film pitching competition.
Conversations

Maria Angelico on STATELESS

AFI | AACTA

Produced by Cate Blanchett and starring an all-star Australian cast, STATELESS is an urgent and compelling drama about individuals caught up in an immigration system that profoundly affects their lives. Each character deals with the contradictions of protection and border control from a unique perspective, offering relevant and timely insight into issues that countries are grappling with around the world.

DNSW
Conversations

The Weight Of Destiny, On-Screen And Off

Sarah Ward

Conversations

Place in Australian Genre Film

Samuel Harris

The sprawling, sun-battered landscape is an icon of the Australian genre film. Scan some of the most popular fare: there’s a reckoning with the (waste)land in George Miller’s MAD MAX franchise and David Michôd’s THE ROVER (2014), where the supposedly barren ‘outback’ has been rendered post-apocalyptic.
Conversations

Australian Cinema – Reality Checked

Glen Falkenstein

The most terrifying thing about film is that it’s all already happened. Sure, stories are original, full of things we or sometimes no one has ever seen before; yet every event in some form, in some place has already transpired.