Joel Edgerton is certainly not an overnight success, but at age 37 years he is the latest big thing. The true-blue Aussie actor is hot property in Hollywood right now with three big Studio movies coming out including THE THING and WARRIOR.  He's just signed onto star in Baz Luhrmann's THE GREAT GATSBY, and after that (The Hurt Locker director) Kathryn Bigelow's Osama Bin Laden pic.

He's also constantly rumoured to be being considered for every major leading male role going around Tinseltown.

And it couldn't happen to a nicer guy, as Andrew Warne found out at the 'Australians In Film Breakthrough Awards' where he received the annual award of recognition.

The transition from novelist to filmmaker is one fraught with peril, since the internal dialogue happens on screen and not on the page. But it usually makes for some challenging movies.

SLEEPING BEAUTY is one such movie, especially for first-time director Julia Leigh.

Her debut feature made its appearance in the most welcoming of artistic environments, the Cannes Film Festival, where she and mentor Jane Campion unveiled this poetic take of mixed metaphors and fantasy.

Listen to Emily Browning talk about her brave performance as a woman completely vulnerable and submissive, and to Julia Leigh describing the literary inspirations of this not-so-enchanted fairy tale.