australian actress cate blanchett who was recently seen in dont look up and nightmare alley has taken the onus for developing film and tv projects as shes changing the landscape of audiovisual content through the dirty films banner she cofounded with her husband andrew uptona manual for cleaning women her first collaboration with pedro almodovar in his englishlanguage debut indigenous australian filmmaker warwick thorntons the new boy and the series disclaimer from alfonso cuaron are some of the projects that are there in the pipeline of dirty filmsread alsoandrew garfield kirsten dunst and benedict cumberbatch react to their sag awards nominationsandrew garfield kirsten dunst and benedict cumberbatch are celebrating receiving nominations for the 28th screen actors guild sag awards the nominations which were announced on wednesday saw garfield receiving a best actor nomination for his performance as of late playwright jonathan larsonas per source blanchett will star in each in addition to producing building on her resume of dual credits that includes carol stateless and mrs america similar to how she chooses acting roles the dirty films team which also includes coco francini and georgie pym takes a filmmakerdriven approachchalking up the companys incredibly eclectic selections to its principals australian heritage the actress told the source no matter the budget or the genre films are born out of interesting conversations so thats where we beginshe explains alluding to australias birth by colonial invasion its a small country in terms of population but we individually punch above our cultural weight because we have such a mix of cultural influences in a great way also in a painful way we have a very interesting perspective on the worldfor her having a creative stake in the project is a bigger aspiration than just finding a role for herself people often assume that when you have a production company you are simply trying to develop materials for yourself sometimes thats the case and you do need to be in somethingthe twotime oscarwinner appeared in all six episodes of the miniseries that ultimately landed at netflix i knew that i had to be in it in some way because of the material no one wanted to make a project that was ostensibly about refugees and asylum seekers she concluded