The agency has stumped up $1 million in production investment for seven new documentaries.
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CEO Elizabeth Trotman noted that StudioCanal AU-NZ was already developing a family film, two biopics, a prestige drama and a romantic comedy.
"Each creative team is to imagine the episode is like an open letter to their 12-year-old self that explores the hopes, the dreams, the challenges, the hardships and the belly laughs that drive today’s girls," the ABC said in a statement.
Screen Australia’s Hot Shots Short Film Fund, now retitled Hot Shots Plus, has been rebranded as a "proof of concept program". The program will now provide production funding for a narrative proof of concept, and development funding to help turn that p
24 features, five online series and two "high-end" television projects have received development funding.
Two features, 'Wonderful Unknown' and 'Dirt Music', as well as a six-part drama series from Greer Simpkin and David Jowsey, are set to shoot in Western Australia, thanks to the $16 million WA Regional Film Fund.
Screen Australia has announced $1.6 million in production investment funding for seven new documentaries.
Local screen production in Queensland has hit a high this financial year, according to Acting Queensland Premier Curtis Pitt.