Screenwest has put $1.2 million in grant funding towards 60 production companies, producers and post houses via one of its suite of COVID-19 support measures.
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Screen Queensland has today announced a completion fund, offering grants of up to $50,000 to help independent Queensland producers complete long-form productions that are at rough-cut stage.
In March, director Luke Eve headed to Spain to marry his fiancé, actor and writer Maria Albiñana. But when the pandemic hit, they had to cancel their wedding two days out from the event.
A new feature film from Baz Luhrmann, set in a small Australian country town, is among the 18 recent projects to receive story development funding from Screen Australia.
Screenwest has announced 11 projects will share in $156,000 of script development funding via its latest Small Screen Scripted Development round.
Screen Tasmania has put funding towards the development of a second season of Stan original series 'The Gloaming', created by Victoria Madden.
Screen Queensland plans to back up to three short-form digital projects per month for the next six months.
What needs to be in place to get the sector back to work? And what will production actually look like when things can resume?