Screen Tasmania is supporting the development of 13 projects – a mix of feature films, comedy and drama series and factual – involving both experienced and emerging talent.
Posie Graeme-Evans, co-creator of the Nine Network's 'McLeod's Daughters', is working on a feature spin-off with producer Sue Clothier and screenwriter Emma Jensen.
Arenamedia and a broad coalition of industry players have called on the Federal Government to create an Innovation Fund to support new and emerging talent and diverse creative voices.
Netflix is signalling a bigger commitment to commissioning Australian productions by hiring Que Minh Luu as director, local originals for Australia.
The $1 million Film and TV Emergency Relief Fund launched by Netflix and music industry charity Support Act will start dispensing money within a couple of weeks.
Screen production in Queensland is set to restart with the second season of Jonathan M. Shiff Productions’ 'The Bureau of Magical Things' and a rom-com feature from the Steve Jaggi Company.
AFTRS graduate Nays Baghai's documentary Descent and three short films - Eliza Scanlen's Mukbang, Alex Wu's Idol and Sara Hirner and Rosemary Vasquez-Brown's GNT - won prizes at the virtual Sydney Film Festival.
Rachel Perkins has been spending lockdown working on the scripts for 'First Wars' and wrestling with the questions she will address in the three-part SBS docudrama about Australia's frontier wars.