Screen Queensland will support seven games projects from the state with more than $1 million in development funding while also helping nine studios attend this week's Gamescom digital games conference in Cologne, Germany.
Flying Bark Productions has promoted Sarah Harper to creative director - 2D, a role which will see her spearhead the company's further expansion into original content, including anime-influenced animation.
'Neptune Frost', directed by Anisia Uzeyman and Saul Williams, is the winner of the Melbourne International Film Festival's inaugural Bright Horizons Award, while Jub Clerc won the Blackmagic Design Australian Innovation Award.
Former VFX coordinator Lucy Cooke launched visual planning tool SpaceDraft out of frustration, having seen too many complicated scenes and stunts planned out with scale models – even toy cars and figurines. Her software has now raised $2.7 million in seed funding and is starting to reshape industry communication.
Production is underway in the South Australian mining town of Coober Pedy on a neo-western whodunnit from auteur Ivan Sen, starring Simon Baker, Rob Collins, Natasha Wanganeen, and Nicholas Hope.
"Our plan sees sustainability becoming a core part of NIDA’s education and we will change the way we create and produce creative works at NIDA to lead and cultivate green industry practice."
First Nations anthology feature 'We Are Still Here' and Michael Spiccia's short film 'I'm On Fire' add to the Australian contingent headed to this year's Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).
The creatives behind the selected projects, which span mixed media and feature documentary, will join the global Doc Society team for a year-long creative mentorship and impact strategy fellowship starting next month.