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Exclusive: Australian teenage drama has its European premiere this week in Tallinn.

LevelK has closed a number of deals on Australian drama Teenage Kicks, which will have its European premiere this week at the Black Nights Film Festival in Tallinn, in the Just Film youth programme.

The film has sold to the Us and Canada (Tla Releasing), UK and Ireland (Bounty Films), Germany and Austria (Salzgeber & Co), Hong Kong (Sundream), Australia and New Zealand (Umbrella Entertainment), as well as Belgium, Luxembourg, Andorra and Monaco (Optimale).

The film is about 17-year-old (played by Miles Szanto) who is grappling with his explosive sexuality as well as feeling guilty about his brother’s accidental death.

The cast also features Daniel Webber (11.22.63), Shari Sebbens (The Sapphires), Charlotte Best (Puberty Blues), Anni Finsterer, Lech Mackiewicz and former footballer Ian Roberts.

Craig Boreham writes and directs his debut feature; Annmaree J Bell produces for Sydney-based Azure Productions. John Frank executive...

Alex Russell in Ivan Sen's Goldstone.

The Sydney Film Festival's Travelling Film Fest returns to Newcastle this year, screening at Tower Cinemas from June 24-26.

Sff's roadshow takes films around the country after they've screened at the festival itself, which takes place in Sydney from June 8-19.

Highlights include Sff's opening night film Goldstone, directed by Ivan Sen and starring Aaron Pedersen, Alex Russell, Jacki Weaver, David Wenham and David Gulpilil, and closing night film Love and Friendship, Whit Stillman's adaptation of an early, unheralded Jane Austen short novel.

Stillman's acclaimed comedy of manners stars Australia's own Xavier Samuel as well as Stephen Fry, Kate Beckinsale and Chloë Sevigny.

.We are thrilled to be returning to Tower Cinemas with a vibrant program of four short films and nine feature films including one documentary,. Travelling Film Festival Manager Alicia Emery said.

Other films set to go on tour include Lee Tamahori's Mahana,...

Exclusive: James O’Brien wrote and directed the fantasy Western for 3rd Partner Productions that screened in the Cannes market.

Western Religion will kick off its Us tour at Arena Cinema in Hollywood on October 9 followed by a week-long engagement at the venue from October 10-15.

Theatrical playdates will cover Austin, Iowa City and New York City. Screen Media will release in the home entertainment arena in 2016.

The narrative follows gunfighters from the far reaches of the globe who descend on the mining town of Religion, Arizona, to compete in a legendary tournament where their souls are at stake.

The cast includes Claude Duhamel, Peter Shinkoda, Merik Tadros, Miles Szanto and Sean Joyce.

Screen Media negotiated North American rights from sales agent Automatic Entertainment.

Exclusive: The Los Angeles-based sales agent will start talks with buyers on the Western starring Claude Duhamel.

James O’Brien wrote and directed Western Religion from 3rd Partner Productions and the film screens in the market on May 16.

The film centres on a gathering of gunfighters and card sharps from around the world who descend on a poker tournament in which their souls are on the line.

Peter Shinkoda, Miles Szanto, Peter Sherayko, Louie Sabatasso and James Anthony Cotton also star.

Automatic Entertainment will be handling worldwide sales.

Craig Boreham.s short film Drowning is making waves more than three years after it was completed.

Having screened at numerous festivals around the world, including as part of the Cinema des Antipodes program at Cannes last year, Boreham has won the Nfsa Orlando Award for the short.

Presented at the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, the Nfsa Orlando Award is presented to the best lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or intersex short Australian film. It's a medium in which Boreham. . an If Award Rising Talent nominee in 2010 . has made a name for himself, with shorts such as Violet screening at international film festivals.

.The really beautiful thing about a short film generally is that it can often just be the exploration of a small idea... it.s freer in a way,. the writer/director said.

However, Drowning, which tells the story of the changing relationship between two teenagers (Miles Szanto and...

Craig Boreham, writer/director of short film The Drowning, starring Xavier Samuel, who starred in A Few Best Men and the Twilight films, has won the Nfsa Orlando Short Film Award. Presented by the National Film and Sound Archive, the award is presented to the best Australian, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or intersex short film with a cash prize of $5000.

The announcement:

The 2012 Nfsa Orlando Short Film Award has been awarded to Craig Boreham, writer and director of Drowning (2009). The Nfsa Orlando award is presented to the winner of the best Australian lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or intersex short film, receiving a cash prize of $5,000 and a place in the National Audiovisual Collection.

The Award was presented by Nfsa Chair Chris Puplick Am on Sunday 25th of March at the closing night of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival at the Australian Centre for Moving Image, as part of the Nfsa...