Roger Donaldson is attached to direct two projects, a feature doc and a feature, inspired by the lives of two famous Kiwis.
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Screen Australia has again rejected calls to cease funding projects from foreign-owned production companies but the aggrieved filmmakers are not giving up on their campaign.
Screen Australia invested more money in factual content than in TV drama and only slightly more in narrative features in the last financial year.
Screen Australia has announced this morning the four teams which have been selected for the Hot Shots: Short Fiction Funding program.
Screen Australia announce today it will invest nearly $10.7 million in 11 television and film projects which will trigger production worth almost $59 million.
Victoria's Napthine Coalition Government has agreed to invest $3.8 million in the Melbourne International Film Festival's (MIFF) Premiere Fund over the next four years.
Producers Alicia Brown and Melanie Coombs have been awarded 50,000 euros ($A73,000) to complete development of Step Thirteen, an oddball comedy which will mark the feature debut of English writer-director Tessa Sheridan.
Screen Australia has released the final guidelines for its new suite of documentary programs, sparking a wave of criticism that little has changed since the draft guidelines were published in September