Screen NSW has launched a new $30,000 initiative to bridge the support gap for emerging filmmakers with disability.
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Screenwriter Sarah Chahine is the inaugural recipient of AFTRS Alumni & Industry Scholarship, designed to support and develop the career of a gifted storyteller.
Ausfilm has told a Senate public hearing that the soon-to-be increased Location Offset will encourage new offshore investment in infrastructure such as studios, as well as make the screen sector more sustainable.
Screen Australia has partnered with Los Angeles-based television production company Dynamic Television, known for 'Ginny & Georgia' and 'Savage River', for a new program to fund the development of up to four scripted television projects.
Biopixel, Kite Fish Film, Millstream Productions, and Pandamonium Films will each receive up to $75,000 to grow their operations over the next 12 months as part of Screen Queensland's NQ Enterprise funding program.
Emerging animators will have the opportunity to receive up to $10,000 of project funding and mentoring from Ludo Studio as part of a new ACMI X residency program.
Animation students at the University of Canterbury are set to benefit from the expertise behind stop-motion titles 'Wallace and Gromit', 'Shaun the Sheep', and 'Morph' as part of a new five-year agreement between the institution and Aardman Academy, the training arm of stop-motion studio Aardman.
Kylie Minogue was one of the biggest TV stars in the country in the late-1980s. But it took the support of the government’s newly-formed screen agency, the Film Finance Corporation (FFC), to provide millions of dollars in funding for her big screen debut.