The funding will help bridge skill shortages and boost the capabilities of the screen workforce.
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The initiative will uncover distinctive WA First Nations voices, support their career progression, and enable practitioners to explore new storytelling mediums and markets.
Screen NSW has overhauled the way it funds productions under its new Creative Communities policy which is aimed at growing the state's cultural organisations and arts sector.
Six projects, including a new First Nations writers initiative from Screenworks, will share in $288,654 from the Screenrights 2024 Cultural Fund.
Australian rock group Mental as Anything and the world of competitive spreadsheet creation are among the subjects of documentaries to be included in the latest round of Screen Australia funding.
The NSW Government has established a body of 11 industry stakeholders to advise on its 10-year cultural policy, which Arts Minister John Graham says is well underway.
All creative decisions are framed by financial constraints – and those constraints have become far tighter as interest rates have skyrocketed in the wake of the pandemic.
Screen Australia has announced that 18 individual opportunities and 18 business proposals will share $5.2 million of Enterprise funding.