Sales and finance company The Exchange is looking for films with strong universal themes across the action-adventure, romance/young adult, family/feel good and horror movie genres at this year's American Film Market (AFM).
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Screen NSW has awarded four filmmaking teams with $75,000 each to develop a short or proof of concept production, as well as develop their first low-budget feature, through its Short to Feature Fast Track program.
Screen Australia has closed its long-running Enterprise Program in an effort to bolster its development and production funding.
A sequel to Warwick Thornton's Sweet Country is among 19 new projects to share over $3 million from Screen Australia's First Nations Department.
Foxtel and Binge are looking to commission "bigger, better and fewer" Australian original series that can attract and maintain a mass audience of subscribers.
Fifteen projects spanning features, television, and online content will share in more than $8.1 million in production funding from Screen Australia, including new features from Flying Bark Productions and Causeway Films.
The $900,166 low-budget feature - written, directed, and starring actor Jace Pickard - was released theatrically and is currently streaming on Amazon Prime.
The cultural and the commercial need not be mutually exclusive, says the Screen Australia CEO.