Australian documentary makers today launched a campaign to boost the ailing numbers of single docs commissioned by the ABC and SBS and for more investment from Screen Australia.
The single documentary is an endangered species in Australia but there are a number of solutions to address the crisis in the documentary industry.
Screen Australia is investing $5.4 million in six feature films from directors Gillian Armstrong, Jeremy Sims and Paul Cox and rising filmmakers Kim Farrant, Mark Grentell and Alexs Stadermann.
Continuing their collaboration after Tim Winton's The Turning, producer Robert Connolly and Indigenous director/choreographer Stephen Page will bring to the big screen an adaptation of Page's dance theatre work Spear.
Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts president Geoffrey Rush has pledged to help the AACTA board and management in the vital quest to find new sponsors
Offshore producers who want to take advantage of the federal government's $20 million incentive to attract big budget productions to shoot Down Under can start preparing their applications.
Despite the ructions in Canberra, the new chief executive of Screen Australia may be announced within a month.
The ANZAC spirit will be celebrated in two miniseries that received funding on Tuesday from Screen Australia.