Dead Lucky, Subtext Pictures’ crime thriller starring Rachel Griffiths and Yoson An as mismatched cops, will screen at Series Mania Melbourne on July 22, three days before its launch on SBS.
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The 2017 calendar year saw the independent screen production sector generate $1.2 billion in production revenue, export $163 million and support around 20,000 jobs. However, more than one in five companies reported a loss and another half only small profit. Almost one in 10 businesses report they are worried about staying afloat over the next five years.
Ian Collie's Easy Tiger Productions has chosen Lisa Matthews to direct an episode of the Nine Network's Doctor Doctor with director Jennifer Leacey as part of the Australian Directors’ Guild’s Shadow Directing program
This financial year the Australian Children's Television Foundation invested a record $421,745 in script development funding for children’s projects.
Leading lights of Australia’s film and TV industry today urged federal politicians to act to ensure Australian stories continue to be told on Australian screens.
To be awarded annually to a WA filmmaker who has a social impact project in need of further support.
Five films supported by the MIFF Premiere Fund including Thomas M. Wright’s directorial debut 'Acute Misfortune' and Sue Thomson’s 'The Coming Back Out Ball Movie' will have their world premieres at the 67th Melbourne International Film Festival.
Warwick Thornton, Rachael Perkins, Craig Gillespie, Elizabeth Debicki and producers Bridget Ikin and Melanie Coombs are among the 928 screen practitioners who have been invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.