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ScreenWest has issued a national and international call for scripts to be developed as a debut feature for Western Australian directors.

The aim is to find well-developed projects for each of three directors in the agency.s 2014-15 Feature Navigator initiative.

Mike Hoath, Maziar Lahooti and Robert Forsyth will participate in the innovative development program designed to progress the careers of Wa directors through skills development and identifying and developing a debut feature film project.

Agents, managers, distributors and credited producers are invited to submit scripts to the Feature Navigator directors for their consideration.

.Mike, Maziar and Robert have each shown a huge amount of talent in their short films and other work to date, and have a stand-out command of the directing craft that will certainly lead to a strong debut feature film and ongoing career in the screen industry,. said ScreenWest acting CEO . development, Rikki Lea Bestall.

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I think it is so fascinating how Sofia Coppola has gone from being one of the primary aspects of The Godfather Part III detractors immediately point to as one of the film's major flaws, to a writer/director we anxiously await what she's going to deliver next. Between The Virgin Suicides, Lost in Translation, Marie Antoinette and Somewhere, I've yet to see a film from Coppola I have not enjoyed on some level.

Last year Coppola delivered Somewhere, which was a film I described in my review as "minimalism at Sofia Coppola's most extreme." The script for the picture was only 42-pages long and yet she delivered a 98-minute movie. It turned some people off, I wasn't entirely blown away, but it is nevertheless fascinating and it appears we may not have to wait long to be fascinated all over again.

As republished by The Playlist, Australian actress Olivia DeJonge...

Peter Rowsthorn has joined the cast of the first Perth-based sitcom, Henry & Aaron’s Seven Steps to Superstardom, currently in production in Western Australia.

“I loved the script and I feel very lucky to be involved. It’s great that something like this is being produced in Perth. I’m really looking forward to shooting with Henry and Aaron this week,” said

Rowsthorn.

Henry Inglis and Aaron Mccann won Movie Extra’s Webfest competition, with a $50,000 prize to produce the comedy series, set to be broadcast on YouTube and the Movie Extra channel in June.

The seven-part series will be shot over 18 days and stars Henry and Aaron as two podcasters as well as James Helm as their self-proclaimed producer, ‘Danny Danielson’, who is hell bent on turning the boys into international superstars. Each episode will see them follow his ridiculous advice on how to become famous. Rowsthorn will appear...