MUMBAI: Spreading wings, Anupam Kher has announced the setting up of his acting school in Australia.

To be known as Actor Prepares Australia, the school will be based at Fox Studios in Sydney. Actor Prepares already has branches in the US and the UK.

Kher said, "We are planning to launch the school in London and Durban around August and the school in Sydney is scheduled to begin functioning by October".

Kher has also entered into alliances with other film organisations in Australia. The tie-ups include the rights to host the inaugural Global Debut Acting Awards named Thespis. The awards, said to be Kher‘s brainchild, will honour debut performances in various categories across the world.

While Kher will also be the first ambassador for the Indian International Film Festival and Awards being organised by Sydney-based Events Temple company this year, Australia‘s famous TV personality and film administrator Peter Castaldi will be the festival manager.

After the inaugural awards in Australia, the annual ceremony is slated to travel around the globe on the lines of IIFA.