Three films releasing across Australia and New Zealand through Icon Film Distribution were awarded top prizes at the prestigious Toronto International Film Festival.
Australian Director Steve Jacobs’ (La Spagnola) highly anticipated film DISGRACE starring Academy Award winning actor John Malkovich, has won the Prize of International Critics (FIPRESCI Prize). Based on the 2003 Nobel Prize winning novel of the same name by J. M. Coetzee, DISGRACE is written and produced by Australian writer/producer Anna-Maria Monticelli, who was also recently awarded the Best Feature Film Adaptation award at the Australian Writers Guild awards in Melbourne this year.