Essential Media and Los Angeles-based Dynamic Television have hired Yolanda Ramke to write Troppo, an 8-part crime drama based on Australian author Candice Fox’s novel Crimson Lake.
Christian White’s debut novel The Nowhere Child, a mystery about the disappearance 28 years earlier of a little girl in the US, is heading to the big screen.
Jimmy Barnes fans turned out for Mark Joffe’s Jimmy Barnes: Working Class Boy which opened wide but on limited sessions in a slow weekend at Australian cinemas.
Benjamin Gilmour’s Afghanistan-set drama Jirga has won the $100,000 best film prize, Australia's richest, at CinfestOZ, surprising the writer-director.
AWGIE nominee Clare Sladden will make her feature directing debut on Shadow Lodge, a suspense/thriller about a once-close group of four friends who come together to renovate an old house.
Network Ten has released a trailer for Playing for Keeps, the 8-part Screentime drama which follows the wives and girlfriends of Australian Rules footballers.
When Sam Neill set out to retrace Captain James Cook’s three voyages to the Pacific for a six-part Foxtel documentary, he had sketchy ideas about the 18th Century explorer and his exploits.
Darcy Prendergast and Seamus Spilsbury won the inaugural Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Pitch competition for scripted series intended for television or the web.