Christian Jeune, Deputy General Delegate and Australian preselector for Festival de Cannes Official Selection (In Competition, Out of Competition and Un Certain Regard) will return to Australia in early December 2009.
Mr. Jeune will be in Australia to view new features and short films that meet the criteria for potential preselection for the 2010 Cannes [...]
Australian actor Heath Ledger’s final performance before he died of an accidental overdose in January 2008 nearly never made it to the big screen, US-born director Terry Gilliam said.
The film maker’s first thought when Ledger died in New York was to ditch The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, which was only half finished.
Jane ****ion, who won the Palme d’Or for “The Piano” (1993), is back with her new film, Bright Star.
…Fanny is played by Australian actress Abbie Cornish.
The 2009 Adelaide Film Festival program has been launched and will open with Sarah Watts‘ new Australian feature film, My Year Without Sex, starring Aussie actor Matt Day.
…The fourth AFF will present 23 world premieres and 62 Australian premieres, with 38 Australian films, including nine new Australian features which are among 143 films from more [...]