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Shooting soon: Our short / proof of concept film A STABLE FOR HORSES. An homage to the Australian Sharpie culture of the 60s-70s. Stay tuned! 🎥

Almost two years ago! Our Director, Davie Paterson was invited to the OSCARS gala dinner in 2023 after a win at Dallas International Film Festival for his unproduced screenplay The Blind Sea

Congratulations to ANORA’s Sean Baker - the first person in Oscars history to win 4 Academy Awards for the same film in one night

Sharpie inspiration for our next film 👌🏼

In pre-pre production for our next film, we’re sharing our latest source of inspiration and long-time favourite Australian subculture: The Australian Sharpies

“Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you’ve got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure. They’re huge and abstrac

We love the 31st annual #VFHollywood Issue, starring Zendaya, Glen Powell, Zoe Saldaña, Nicole Kidman, Dev Patel, Sydney Sweeney, Josh O’Connor, Danielle Deadwyler, Jonathan Bailey, Lisa, Ncuti Gatwa, and Bill Skarsgard.

Our pics for this year: Nickel Boys, Anora and The Brutalist have our hearts ❤️ Congratulations to the films and their makers. Good luck!

That’s all, folks! A late thank you to our international audiences for all the love, we’ve loved sharing our film with you. Can’t wait to bring you our next

Boné | Director: Davie Paterson | DOP: Jose Alkon | Sound: Joe Lewis/King Sound

Boné | Director: Davie Paterson | DOP: Jose Alkon | Sound: Joe Lewis/King Sound

Boné | Director: Davie Paterson | DOP: Jose Alkon | Sound: Joe Lewis/King Sound

Boné | Director: Davie Paterson | DOP: Jose Alkon | Sound : Joe Lewis/King Sound

Boné toured festivals in New York, Atlanta, and San Francisco, with so many lovely festival attendees giving us the post-screening thumbs up. Thank you, folks!

Thank you to all the people who came out to see Boné in New York, San Francisco and Atlanta as part of our festival run - we love cinema! We can’t wait to bring you our next film. Adieu!

Boné screened at the Synchronicity Theatre, Atlanta; a fantastic audience at the Atlanta Shortsfest

The beautiful Herbst Theatre, San Francisco, which screened Boné to a packed festival audience

Boné screened at the Wythe Theatre, New York - one of our favourite festival cinema experiences

FOSSIL FILMS is an Australian production company created by proud Balinese-Australian Producer and Actor, Maia Thomas and Writer and Director, Davie Paterson.

FOSSIL’s focus is unique Australian stories, characters and perspectives with a spot

We’ve been away over the new year break and as we come back, we want to make our stance on Invasion Day clear: We acknowledge January 26th as a day of mourning for our First Nations peoples. Unceded sovereignty means this always was, always wil