Fiona Cameron counts Gender Matters, the Enterprise scheme and the growth of online projects among the highlights of her 10 years as chief operating officer at Screen Australia.
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Fresh off a Sydney Film Festival win for his doco 'Ghosthunter', writer-director Ben Lawrence has received funding from Screen Australia and Create NSW for narrative feature 'Hearts and Bones', set in Western Sydney.
Acorn Media Enterprises continues to show a hearty appetite for Australian drama, acquiring multiple-territory rights to 'Mystery Road', Bunya Productions’ six-part crime drama commissioned by the ABC.
The New South Wales Government has renewed Create NSW's Made In NSW fund, announcing today that it will allocate up to $10 million per year towards the fund over the next four years.
Former Madman Production Company head Nick Batzias is developing 16 film and TV projects after launching Good Thing Productions.
ABC managing director Michelle Guthrie today fiercely defended the public broadcaster and rejected calls to privatise the organisation.
“It’s a great story about female friendship, it’s an aspirational story and it happened before the #MeToo movement and we’ve come clashing into that.”
See-Saw Films is gearing up to produce 'The End', a multi-generational TV drama which centres on people who are trying to figure out how to die with dignity.