Hodgson joins Defrim Isai's production team from June 18
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.
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.
Australian film and television is delivering less local cultural value to audiences, authentic dramas are fewer, and much of it now feels a lot less Australian – even unrecognisable as made in this country, according to veteran screen journalist Sandy George. In this extract from her New Platform Paper, she argues Screen Australia must proactively cultivate film and television that is Australian in look and feel.
In a single, extraordinary day more than $2 million in donations was pledged to seven Australian feature-length documentaries on Wednesday.