Screen Queensland has welcomed Torres Strait Islander woman Danielle Ah Boo in the newly-created role of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander program head.
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The NSW Government has backtracked on its decision to cut $60 million from the state’s screen funding programs, announcing the Made In NSW fund and the Post, Digital and Visual Effects rebate will continue in their existing forms.
Dan Ewing had the experience of going from filming Amazon Prime Video's first Japanese original 'The Silent Service' in Tokyo to boarding horror comedy 'Zombie Plane' with Sophie Monk and Vanilla Ice earlier this year.
Feature film 'Honey Ant Dreamers', which goes behind the birth of the Western Desert Art Movement, is set to shoot in the Northern Territory next year, with US actor and comedian - and avid Indigenous art collector - Steve Martin as executive producer.
Filmmakers across the country will have the chance to compete for a share of $75,500 as part of a new short film competition
With school holidays now underway in most of the country, 'PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie' had a relatively straightforward path to no. 1 at the box office last weekend.
The third seasons of ABC series' 'Ginger and the Vegesaurs' and 'The Newsreader', as well as a new film from Sophie Hyde about Oscar Wilde's wife, are among the projects to share in $10 million of production funding from Screen Australia.
There is hope Hollywood's writers will soon be able to return to work after more than four months on strike, with the Writers Guild of America reaching a tentative deal with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers.