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UK-based sales agent Rapt Films International has acquired international sales rights outside of Australia and New Zealand for Gabriel Carrubba’s debut feature Sunflower.

Sunflower premiered at Sydney Film Festival in June last year, going on to further Australian events including Melbourne the following month.

The semi-autobiographical film follows a teenage boy who struggles to understand and embrace his sexuality as he comes of age in the working-class suburbs of Melbourne. It stars Liam Mollica, alongside Luke J. Morgan, Olivia Fildes, Daniel Halmarick and Elias Anton.

Writer-director Carrubba produced the film alongside Zane Borg for Australia’s Pancake Originals.

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Participating in the Goes to Cannes initiative for the very first time, Australia’s Queer Screen Mardi Gras Film Festival has unveiled titles selected for its works-in-progress showcase: Four feature films and one documentary.

“It is the first time that Goes to Cannes has a partner from Australia and it’s also the first time when we have a festival dedicated to LGBTQ films and content. It’s also a part of our impACT initiative, which supports diversity, inclusion and sustainability in the film industry,” observes Guillaume Esmiol, executive director at Marché du Film.

Fawzia Mirza’s “The Queen of My Dreams” and Poppy Stockell’s dark comedy-drama “Triple Oh!” – “about a mismatched pair of queer ambulance paramedics who get hands-on with life, death, and each other,” teases the director – will be presented, as well as “Sunflower” by Gabriel Carrubba.

“For me, the mood of the film is sensual. It’s tender,...

The Austin Film Festival (Aff) has announced the 2022 Film Competition Jury and Audience Award winners alongside the Screenplay Competition winners. In the festival, writers are recognized for their contribution to film, television, theatre and new media. The competitions received over 5,000 film submissions and over 10,000 script submissions.

Film Jury Awards

Narrative Feature: Welcome, Violeta!, written by Fernando Fraiha & Inés Bortagaray, directed by Fernando Fraiha

Documentary Feature: With this Light, directed by Nicole Bernardi-Reis & Laura Bermúdez

Comedy Vanguard Feature: The Library Boys, written/directed by Zane Borg

Dark Matters Feature: The Domestic, written/directed by Brad Katzen

Narrative Short: One for Sorrow, Two for Joy, written/directed by Ana Yang

Student Short: Sammy, Without Strings, written by Will Henderson, III & Ralph Parker, III, directed by Ralph Parker, III

Documentary Short: Gina, directed by Kathryn Prescott

Animated Short: Rosemary A.D. (After Dad), directed by Ethan Barrett

Produced Digital Series: Serjan Bratan, written by Alisher Utev & Sergei Litovchenko,...

24-year-old filmmaker Zane Borg’s advice to other young filmmakers? "Your story is worth telling.”

Borg’s debut feature 'The Library Boys' premiered at the Austin Film Festival over the weekend, where it has since won the festival’s Comedy Vanguard award.

The post Zane Borg encourages other emerging filmmakers as ‘The Library Boys’ wins comedy prize at Austin Film Festival appeared first on If Magazine.

Animated feature lands sales in Europe, Asia, Canada and the Middle East.

Australian outfit Odin’s Eye Entertainment (Oee) has closed several deals for Mexican animated feature Little Eggs: An African Rescue at the EFM.

The film has sold to Australia and New Zealand (Icon), Italy (Eagle Pictures), Greece (Tanweer), Russia/Baltics (Paradise), Canada (Equinoxe), Portugal (Films For You), Middle East (Ecs) and Taiwan (Creative Century).

It marks the fourth feature from Mexico’s Huevocartoon Studios’ roster of Egg/Rooster movies and is the first to be distributed outside of the Americas.

The film was released in Mexico by Videocine in...