Screen Australia has provided almost $800,000 in production funding for five online projects, featuring talent such as Mark Grentell, Enzo Tedeschi, Rosie Lourde, Kristy Best, Geraldine Hickey and Diana Nguyen.
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Distributor and cinema-on-demand platform FanForce has launched streaming service FanForce TV, with a focus on community-led viewing and online discussion of films.
"We took some time convincing one another to do it, because the subject matter would require it to be quite personal again. Of course it should be. But then when we jumped into it we realised that was its true power, so we are really glad it happened."
The partnership with Microsoft will see content streamed directly to Xbox 360 consoles
Former Network Ten, Warner Bros. and Foxtel executive Neradine Tisaj has joined Nine Entertainment Co.
Cable network HBO will invest $10m into online video company Quickflix
Streaming services and pay TV platforms are set to grow exponentially in the next few years while free-to-air broadcasters continue to lose viewers, albeit at a modest rate.
The Walt Disney Co. and 20th Century Fox have licensed their product to Dendy Direct, the Video-on-Demand service which debuts on August 6.