Jacinta Horin and Rubeena King are the inaugural recipients of the Animal Logic Scholarship, each receiving $18,000 to support them through their Masters of Animation and Visualisation at the UTS Animal Logic Academy.
Karen Radzyner has joined Photoplay as head of development, bringing to the company a significant slate of projects as it expands further into film and television.
Screen Queensland is continuing to push skills development in the state, teaming up with the Australian Directors' Guild for the Local2Global program.
With support from the New South Wales government, Sydney-based production and animation studio Flying Bark Productions is set to expand its full-time staff numbers by 150 over the next three years.
Australian directors are set to be well represented at Cannes this year, with George Miller's 'Three Thousand Years of Longing' another early addition to the program.
The Casting Guild of Australia has appointed Thea McLeod as its new president, succeeding David Newman, while Anousha Zarkesh has been named vice president.
Luke Sparke has signed a distribution deal with Film Mode Entertainment that incorporates newly-announced Sparke Films' projects 'Weapons of Choice' and 'Primitive War', as well as the upcoming sequels in the sci-fi 'Occupation' franchise.
An upcoming feature documentary exploring neo-Nazi communities in Australia will introduce a new slate of long-form investigative factual content from Nine-owned streamer Stan.