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.
First Nations professionals working on the medical front line and an elite female cycling team are among the subjects for nine documentary titles to share in $2.3 million of Screen Australia production funding.
Production on major WA family feature Whale Shark Jack remains delayed more than a year after the Screen Australia-supported film was first announced.
The Australian Film Institute (AFI), which runs the annual AACTA Awards, has failed to lodge its 2022-23 financial accounts with the regulator on time.