Long-mooted, a studio precinct in Western Australia looks finally set to become a reality, with the state government formally calling for market-led proposals to build, locate and operate a Perth-based facility.
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Screen Australia and Google Australia have announced over $900,000 of production funding for YouTube creators Beau Miles, Bush Tucker Bunjie, Fishing the Wild, Jenny J Zhou, Never Too Small and Tibees, as the recipients of this year’s Skip Ahead initiative.
Humdrum Comedy's LGBTIQ mockumentary series 'Metro Sexual' has sold to US streaming service Crackle and Canada's OUTtv, to premiere September 1.
Toni Collette's directorial debut, an animated series based on 'The Sapphires' and a Shakespeare-inspired anthology are among the 42 projects to recently share in $1.4 million of development funding from Screen Australia.
Two early-career screen practitioners from Cairns have been selected for Screen Queensland and Screenworks' FNQ Screen Industry Bootcamp – a six week mentorship program with game development company Gameloft and Ludo Studio.
Ahead of its impending launch in Australia later this year, BBC Studios/ITV's SVOD platform BritBox has appointed Moira Hogan as country manager.
First-time feature directors Thomas Wright ('Acute Misfortune'), John Sheedy ('H is for Happiness'), Ben Lawrence ('Hearts and Bones') and Natalie Erika James ('Relic') will vie for the Australian Directors' Guild Award for Best Direction in a Feature Film ($1 million or over) against Sophie Hyde ('Animals') and Wayne Blair ('Top End Wedding').
For the first time, the ABC has teamed with the Northern Territory government for the annual SPARK film initiative, with five shorts from emerging NT filmmakers to be both selected for the Darwin International Film Festival (DIFF) and to air on ABC platforms.