Australian comedy web-series The Justice Lease is returning a for second season after winning $70,000 at the Viewster Online Film Festival.
Screen Australia has launched a new research project into the levels of representation of cultural diversity, disability and LGBTQI in Australian television drama broadcast over the last five years.
Foxtel chief executive Richard Freudenstein will step down from the company after more than four years at the helm.
O'Neill was most recently VP of unscripted development at Essential Media's LA office. For Essential in Australia he worked on Dingo: Wild Dog at War (ABC1), Getting Frank Gehry (ABC1), Maddie Parry: Inside the Clinic (ABC2), Australia: The Story of Us (C
The indie features Nicholas Kato (Gallipoli, The Fear), Clayton Jacobson (Kenny, Animal Kingdom), Maya Aleksandra (Neighbours, Winners and Losers, Wilfred), and is the story of Jamie (Kato), a 26-year-old musician who is out of work and down on his luck.
The promotion brings together independent cinemas in a coordinated promotional effort, allowing them to hold their own preview screenings with intros from director Waititi alongside the screening of exclusive, never-seen-before footage.
Spectrum Films has moved into its new home at Fox Studios after a raft of key appointments.
The ICE program takes the form of three intensive Pitch Writing workshops "which will cover the narrative elements needed to communicate strong, compelling stories, and support emerging writers to develop a 1 – 2 page pitch document".