Bruce Beresford’s 'Ladies in Black' has grossed $11.4 million in seven weeks, encouraging Sony Pictures, which acquired worldwide rights, to start devising plans to release the comedy-drama in offshore markets.
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Screen Australia backed four short-form comedies and one drama with close to $500,000 in its most recent online production funding round.
The ABC's 'Q&A' panel will return to Screen Producers Australia's Screen Forever on November 20 to debate the big issues facing the screen industry.
Screen Australia CEO Graeme Mason is set to continue leading the agency for a further five years.
Screenworks has partnered with Australians in Film in Los Angeles to establish a regional screen scholarship program for talented screenwriters and content creators living in regional, rural and remote Australia.
After more than two and a half years, the Australian Writers’ Guild Authorship Collecting Society (AWGACS), Australian Writers’ Guild and Screenrights have settled their Federal Court dispute.
Screenwriter and playwright, Eleanor Witcombe, whose most enduring works were the adaptations of 'My Brilliant Career' and 'The Getting of Wisdom', has died in Sydney. She was 95.
Actor, writer, director and producer Leah Purcell will deliver the Hector Crawford memorial lecture on November at Screen Producers Australia's Screen Forever conference.