Screen Australia has appointed a head of scripted, with former investment and development manager Christopher Sharp stepping into the newly-created role.
Northern Pictures was crowned Production Business of the Year at Wednesday evening's Screen Producers Australia (SPA) Awards, while also taking home further gongs for 'See What You Made Do' and 'Love on the Spectrum'.
First Nations screen creatives in South Australia and the Northern Territory will have the opportunity to learn new skills in immersive storytelling as part of a new workshop launched under the Centralised cross-state initiative.
Aquarius Films is developing a feature film based on journalist Abdul Karim Hekmat's The Monthly article 'True Love in Nauru', about two gay refugees who meet and fall in love while in offshore detention.
A film tracking the 30-year journey of children's band The Wiggles and another celebrating the life of late music executive Michael Gudinski are among the nine projects to share in more than $2.7 million of documentary funding from Screen Australia.
"Let’s make no bones about it - this is a disaster."
In the lead up to the federal election, the fight to regulate streaming services looks poised to get noisier: Australian Directors Guild executive director Alaric McAusland told Screen Forever Tuesday that the industry was currently "way too polite" to government on the issue.
Flying Bark Productions has launched a new production arm, After Bark, which will focus on content for older audiences, including mature animation projects and both scripted and unscripted live action.
Shuang Hu will star as a Chinese-Australian tea shop owner searching for love, family, and cultural connection in Amazon's first original Australian feature, 'Five Blind Dates'.