Film Victoria, in partnership with the ABC, Matchbox Pictures and Princess Pictures, has launched a new industry internship program to the provide career pathways for Indigenous and traditionally under-represented Victorian creative talent.
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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.
Create NSW and the ABC have unveiled the recipients of $445,000 in production and development funding, spanning across three different drama initiatives.
Screen Australia has announced $4 million worth of production investment for one film, two television series and three online projects. They include a film adaptation of book 'Penguin Bloom', starring Naomi Watts and produced by Bruna Papandrea's Made Up Stories; a second season of ABC series 'Mystery Road'; Nine's 'Seachange' reboot; and 'Roborovski', a VR project from Tilda Cobham-Hervey and Dev Patel.
Screen Australia and Google Australia have announced $500,000 in funding for five online creative teams to ‘skip ahead’ their YouTube careers.
Following on from a review last year, applications are now open for Screen Australia's sector and talent development program, Enterprise.
Comedy feature 'The Chain Breakers', to star Jacki Weaver, Jack Thompson, James Cromwell, Denis Waterman and Shane Jacobson, is one of seven projects to have recently received production funding from Screen Australia.
A three-parter exploring the forces behind and the cover-up of child abuse inside the Catholic Church; a feature doco co-written and co-directed by Nel Minchin and Wayne Blair that looks at the work of Indigenous performing arts company Bangarra; and two projects from Mint Pictures for SBS are among the 14 most recent docos to have received production funding from Screen Australia.