Netflix ANZ Grow Creative manager Penny Smallacombe, ABC head of comedy Todd Abbott and writer and director Stef Smith came together for a panel discussion on career pathways at the ADG's Director's Cut conference on Saturday.
Screen Queensland will support seven games projects from the state with more than $1 million in development funding while also helping nine studios attend this week's Gamescom digital games conference in Cologne, Germany.
Flying Bark Productions has promoted Sarah Harper to creative director - 2D, a role which will see her spearhead the company's further expansion into original content, including anime-influenced animation.
'Neptune Frost', directed by Anisia Uzeyman and Saul Williams, is the winner of the Melbourne International Film Festival's inaugural Bright Horizons Award, while Jub Clerc won the Blackmagic Design Australian Innovation Award.
For director Imogen McCluskey it isn't the medium, but the message - that is to say, emotion, character and story - that is important in her work.
Former VFX coordinator Lucy Cooke launched visual planning tool SpaceDraft out of frustration, having seen too many complicated scenes and stunts planned out with scale models – even toy cars and figurines. Her software has now raised $2.7 million in seed funding and is starting to reshape industry communication.
Anyone watching new Netflix mystery/thriller 'Echoes' believing it to be creator Vanessa Gazy's follow-up to Stan Original 'Eden' might be surprised to learn the idea for the series came well before that of last year's mystery drama.
Production is underway in the South Australian mining town of Coober Pedy on a neo-western whodunnit from auteur Ivan Sen, starring Simon Baker, Rob Collins, Natasha Wanganeen, and Nicholas Hope.