Hodgson joins Defrim Isai's production team from June 18
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VICE and Screen Australia have announced director Isaac Elliott and producer Lucy Knox's Burlesque Blokes as the winner of their joint annual pitching comp, Pitch Australiana, held at AIDC earlier this month.
The filmmakers behind low-budget thriller 'Dark Noise' have settled their long-running case against Screen Australia's decision to reject their Producer Offset application.
Screen Producers Australia (SPA) believes the screen industry's new entrants and smaller operations are at risk of being squeezed out by unsustainable financial pressures, following a member survey showing producers are increasingly being asked to bear the monetary and creative burden of project development.
First Nations professionals working on the medical front line and an elite female cycling team are among the subjects for nine documentary titles to share in $2.3 million of Screen Australia production funding.
Screen Australia and VICE have named 'Searching for the Tassie Tiger as the winner of annual pitching competition Pitch Australiana, held at the Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC) in Melbourne in early March.
Simplicity and clarity will inform Screen Australia's approach to documentary funding in the year ahead, according to head of documentary Alex West.
There are calls for funding bodies such as Screen Australia to consider their support of production company Made Up Stories, due to the involvement of Steve Hutensky.