Aimée Lindorff has been appointed as the new director of the Gold Coast Film Festival, succeeding Lucy Fisher.
The 1980 NRL State of Origin series will play out on the big screen in a new feature film celebrating the achievements of Indigenous rugby league champ Arthur 'Artie' Beetson, The Underdog.
Magpie Pictures is developing a six-part series based on Mireille Juchau’s novel 'The World Without Us', to be titled 'The Hive'.
Ana Kokkinos, Leah Purcell, Julie Kalceff, Fadia Abboud and Lucy Gaffy will helm anthology feature drama 'Here Out West', penned by eight emerging writers and now shooting in Sydney.
AIDC will be held entirely online in 2021, with an early line-up of international speakers that includes Sundance Film Festival director Tabitha Jackson, and directors David France and Kirsten Johnson.
Second features from directors Natalie Erika James ('Relic') and Samuel Van Grinsven ('Sequin in a Blue Room') are among the 28 projects to recently share in $1 million worth of development funding from Screen Australia.
Cinespace has enlisted a group of industry heavy-hitters to deliver an initiative for emerging creatives from First Nations or culturally diverse background who have a pilot TV script ready to pitch.
Production is underway on Kitty Flanagan's six-part comedy 'Fisk' (previously 'Entitled') for the ABC in Melbourne.