Eight finalists will compete in AACTA and Monster Pictures pitch competition, Pitch: Isolation, with the winner to receive $10,000 in development funding and a theatrical distribution agreement.
Storyteller and producer Pauline Clague is the recipient of this year's $20,000 Natalie Miller Fellowship.
Screen Canberra has backed seven projects with $355,000, including horror film 'Sissy', expected to shoot by the end of the year.
'The Handmaid's Tale' creator, showrunner and EP Bruce Miller and Sera Gamble, co-creator of 'You' and 'The Magicians' will be among the headline speakers at Screen Forever conference in February.
Pink Pepper's Taryne Laffar and Periscope Pictures' Sam Bodhi Field are the 2020 recipients of the Brian Beaton Award, presented by Screenwest.
AFTRS, Doc Society, AIDC and Screen NSW have announced the social impact projects selected for the inaugural New Perspectives Pitch Lab.
Lara Kose, Alies Sluiter, Amie Batalibasi, Sarah Hatherley and Jessica Liley are the five Australian practitioners selected for the annual Women in Screen Workshop, a six-week lab run by the Australian International Screen Forum in New York.
AACTA has announced the five finalists in contention for the inaugural Reg Grundy Award, with the winner to receive a $50,000 prize for their idea for a new unscripted TV format.