The documentary sector must remain vigilant of regulatory details and market factors as it continues to navigate changes to financing and distribution models in 2024, Documentary Australia CEO Mitzi Goldman says.
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Screen Producers Australia has released the full line-up for next month's Screen Forever conference, featuring more than 40 sessions conducted under five strands: Breaking Boundaries, Making It Rain, Creative Difference, Keeping it Real, and All Screen Business Begins with a Story.
Actress Shuang Hu started writing her own work "out of necessity" - she realised if you have a story you want to tell, you can't rely on others to tell it for you. That led her to create Australia's first Amazon Original film, rom-com 'Five Blind Dates'.
'Force of Nature', Robert Connolly's much anticipated follow up to 2021's 'The Dry', led the box office last weekend, marking the first time an Australian film has hit no. 1 since 'Elvis' in June 2022.
The ABC will welcome television executive Toni Skaife in the newly created role of chief partnerships and negotiation officer.
Sarah Snook has joined Jacki Weaver, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Magda Szubanski, and Eric Bana in the voice cast of Adam Elliot’s stop-motion feature 'Memoir of a Snail'.
Danny and Michael Philippou's 'Talk To Me' took home a further three awards at AACTA Ceremony on Saturday evening, including Best Film and Best Direction, adding to its haul of five gongs from Thursday.
SBS will seek to drive its point of difference as a public broadcaster to audiences in the coming year, with director of television Kathryn Fink encouraging prospective collaborators to be “bold and ambitious” in their ideas.