Screentime will produce 'Pine Gap', a six-part political thriller set in and around the US/Australian spy satellite base in the Northern Territory for the ABC and Netflix.
A selection of Australia's best-known Hollywood exports will take to the stage at this month's SXSW Sydney conference as part of two new sessions being presented by Australian in Film, in partnership with Screen Australia.
Melbourne and Brisbane-based Continuance Pictures has launched a short film fund offering up to $10,000 per project for emerging filmmakers whose shorts would serve as concepts for feature films or TV series.
Sunny S. Walia has been announced as the winner of the latest Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) pitch competition.
In recent years we have seen a radical shake out in the old television broadcast model, writes veteran documentary filmmaker Tom Zubrycki. In this extract from his new Platform Paper, he asks what place will documentary have in this new factual environment.
When Gracie Otto told her friend Nick Broomfield that Hong Kong businessman, philanthropist and socialite David Tang had rejected her proposal to be profiled in a feature documentary, the filmmaker gave her some sage advice.
Ballarat writing couple Lou Sanz and John Kachoyan will take their talents to the Big Apple after being named the recipients of this year's AACTA Regional Landscapes development grant on Saturday.
Vincent Monton is understandably chuffed that Australians have the chance to discover - or rediscover - his telemovie Point of No Return 25 years after it premiered on Network 10.