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As a result of the Director's Attachment Scheme, emerging directors now have the opportunity to work alongside Tony Ayres on his new film Cut Snake.
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Screen Australia says it has not mismanaged its finances by spending its annual production funding in just six months - a state of affairs which it says reflects the strength of the local film industry.
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Screen Australia will invest $216,000 in development funding across seven feature film projects, including three that the funding agency has previously supported.
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Screen Australia will invest almost $20 million across 12 screen projects including futuristic Western The Rover, starring Robert Pattinson and Guy Pearce
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Screen Australia research shows that 57 per cent of online viewers now watch more feature films, television drama and documentaries than ever before
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The Australian Writers' Guild has backed Screen Australia's decision to help shift the local feature film industry away from an auteur expression model
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Movie Extra and Screen Australia have joined forces to offer budding filmmakers the chance to produce a webseries with a $100,000 production budget
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The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has labelled the current media legislative framework as broken and under significant pressure
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Selected as one of three scripts funded by Screen Australia/Open Channel’s 2011 Raw Nerve Production initiative, SWITCH is currently in production.
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Screen Australia will provide up to $3 million in enterprise funding to selected production companies following a positive survey of the initial recipients
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A disturbing number of Australian films are not watched at cinemas, but rather on TV screens, while very few of those viewings are being converted into profit by filmmakers
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Screen Australia will provide development funding for 13 feature films, two animated shorts and two games, as well as the completion of two short films
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Screen Australia has recouped less than 5 per cent of its initial $7.5 million investment in Mao's Last Dancer and Tomorrow, When the War Began
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At first glance, a website designed to help the recently bereaved may not seem like an obvious choice for Screen Australia's Innovation program funding
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Screen Australia and the WA government have announced plans to invest in Drift, while the national agency has also backed indigenous feature Satellite Boy
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The Administrative Appeals Tribunal has upheld Screen Australia's decision to reject a Producer Offset application by one of Australia's largest TV companies
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Screen Australia has warned that the industry is facing a sharp fall in feature film expenditure this financial year due to fewer planned big-budget local and foreign productions
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Screen Australia's head of development says there is a troubling shortage of young female writers and directors looking to work in the mainstream
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Screen Australia has completed an overhaul of its support programs covering development, production financing, indigenous projects and marketing
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Sally Riley, the Head of Screen Australia's Indigenous Department, will take up a newly created position as Head of ABC TV's Indigenous Department in May
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The documentary industry has rejected a suggestion by Screen Australia to raise the Producer Offset threshold in exchange for increasing direct funding
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Screen Australia boss Ruth Harley says the paucity of mid-range feature films being made without the agency's financial assistance remains an area of concern
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This year's Berlinale festival includes four Australian films, one project in the co-production market, and four local filmmakers in the talent campus
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The national screen agency has not recouped its initial investment in a single feature film, TV or documentary production over the past three years
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Screen Australia allowed a script assessor to executive produce a feature film he recommended receive more than $1 million in government funding
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Screen Australia has released its 2008/09 Drama Production Survey, highlighting Australia's increase in expenditure for local productions, including feature films and TV drama.
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Ten Australian producers will head to Hollywood next month to pitch their projects to studio executives as part of a Screen Australia/Ausfilm initiative
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Screen Australia has announced four new development initiatives aimed at supporting Australian practitioners to create outstanding Australian content
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Jane Schoettle, pre-selector for the Toronto International Film Festival, will be in Australia from late February to conduct script advisory sessions on selected Screen Australia...
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Screen Australia today called for submissions from industry practitioners on its Marketing, Support and Promotion, and Research and Statistics areas.
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Frederic Boyer, a member of the Selection Committee for Quinzaine des Realisateurs will be visiting Australia in February, to view new Australian feature films for possible selection.
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Screen Australia's new CEO, Dr Ruth Harley speaks to NZ On Screen in retrospect of her career move as an academic into management in the New Zealand film and television industry, as well as her expectations for the Australian industry.
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Ruth Harley, Screen Australia's Chief Executive Officer, last night announced the six teams participating in the 2008/09 IndiVision Project Lab.
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The 2009 Sundance Film Festival will feature six Australian screen productions including four shorts and an installation piece. The festival opens January 15 with the previously announced Australian feature, Mary and Max.
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Victoria continues to steal the spotlight with Screen Australia's 2007/08 Drama Production Survey results showing that 37% of the $650 million in national drama production activity took place on-location and in studios throughout Melbourne.
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Acclaimed Danish director Susanne Bier and award-winning producer Meg LeFauve are in Sydney this week as international advisors for Screen Australia's IndiVision.
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H2O - Just Add Water, one of Australia's widely successful live action children's TV productions, is slated to go into production with a feature film spin-off sometime in 2009.
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The Australian Writers' Guild has expressed alarm at Screen Australia's draft guidelines and the impact they will have on the future of Australia's film industry.
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Screen Australia's executive director, Production Support & Investment, Chris Fitchett, will leave the agency on 5 December 2008 to pursue his own projects.
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Screen Australia has announced a reminder to film producers to put up their submissions report regarding the effect of the film tax offsets on levels of independent and in-house television production.
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Screen Australia is offering Travel Grants for producers to attend two markets in 2009 - the European Film Market and the 10th Annual Kidscreen Summit.
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The prestigious International Documentary Festival of Amsterdam has announced the selection of six Australian titles that reflect the diversity of Australian documentary filmmaking.
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The divide between emerging and established producers - as defined by Screen Australia - widened on Wednesday when a mixed crowd of screen practitioners met at the agency's Sydney offices to dissect the new guidelines.
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Malcolm McDonald - director of the Screen Australia Making History documentary Mawson - Life and Death in Antarctica was awarded the Best Director Award at the Jules Verne Adventure Film Festival held in Los Angeles over the weekend.
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The Screen Australia National Interest Program, Captain Cook - Obsession and Discovery, has been awarded the prestigious Audio-Visual History Prize at the 2008 NSW Premier's History Awards.
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Screen Australia Digital Learning is delighted to announce that the educational website Mabo: The Native Title Revolution has won the prestigious 2008 United Nations Association of Australia Media Peace Award for Best Online Production.
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Screen Australia today began consulting with industry organisations, practitioners and state agencies throughout Australia regarding its draft program guidelines for 2009.
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Screen Australia has revealed plans to stop almost all development and production funding for short films, according to the draft program guidelines released today.
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The Screen Australia Board has approved funding for Animal Kingdom, the first feature film by internationally acclaimed short film writer/director David Michod; among a list of 19 other productions.
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After three successful years, MeetMarket, the place to meet with international and Australian buyers, returns to the 2009 Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC) in Adelaide next February.
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Screen Australia has issued a provisional Producer Offset certificate to Omnilab Media for its sequel to the 1982 fantasy classic The Dark Crystal, which the company is currently developing.
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12canoes.com.au, the new website from Arnhem Land's Ramingining community together with filmmakers Molly Reynolds and Rolf de Heer has had visitors from 128 countries covering all 5 continents since going live on September 8.
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The Hong Kong - Asia Film Financing Forum 2009 is now accepting applications from Australia, embracing the Australian industry as part of the Asia Pacific community.
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Screen Australia, in partnership with IFFR, is offering a special travel grant scheme for three producers to attend the Rotterdam Lab, organised as part of CineMart.
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Novelist turned film director Christopher Kenworthy has just completed his first feature, The Sculptor, and he talks to INSIDE FILM about getting this supernatural thriller produced.
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Screen Australia today released a draft Statement of Intent (SOI) that sets out broad principles for the direction of the Commonwealth Government's new screen agency.
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From the director of Head On and the writer of Lantana comes Blessed, the third collaboration between director Ana Kokkinos and writer Andrew Bovell.
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Screen Australia has reminded producers to credit the new agency rather than the AFC, FFC or Film Australia, if funding has been received after July 1 2008.
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Screen Australia and SBS Television and Online today announced details of a call for proposals for a new multicultural history documentary series.
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Screen Australia's board met in Brisbane on Monday and approved a range of 25 projects in all major areas of production, with a production value of $86 million.
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Federal Arts Minister Peter Garrett has taken the screen industry by surprise by appointing NZFC boss Ruth Harley the new CEO of Screen Australia.
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Screen Australia, in partnership with Warp X and Madman, will hold a two-day workshop to develop feature film concepts that steer two well known genres - comedy and thriller - in new and original directions.
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This year's SPAA Conference in conjunction with Showtime, Holding Redlich and Screen Australia will provide producers with the opportunity to pitch their projects to VIPs from both the local and international screen industry.
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ScreenWest has announced that the classic 60's children's series Skippy the Bush Kangaroo is set to return to TV in a new documentary supported by WA.
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Five short 'made for mobile' films produced as a co-production of Screen Australia and the National Film Board of Canada have been selected to screen in competition at the 2008 Portable Film Festival.
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Screen Australia will apply up to $750,000 of its 2008/09 documentary funds for the production of up to five documentary programs with no requirement for market attachments.
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Screen Australia is pleased to announce that updated versions of the A-Z budgets for feature films and documentaries are now available on its website at this link.
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Screen Australia is pleased to announce that updated versions of the A-Z budgets for feature films and documentaries are now available on its website.
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Screen Australia has announced that it will be offering travel grants for producers travelling to the upcoming market MIPCOM in October this year.
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Sydney Film Festival has appointed a new CEO, Mark Sarfaty, following the resignation of general manager Fiona Cameron, who resigned to take up the position of executive director (Strategy and Operations) at Screen Australia.
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The highly anticipated producer offset scheme has proved to be a positive incentive to producers with more than 100 certificates being issued to features, documentaries and television, since its inception in November 2007.
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The film industry is approaching the 2020 Summit with great optimism. Attendees Hal McElroy, Robert Connolly & Geoffrey Atherden speak with Inside Film about what they are bringing to the table.
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