Copyright society Screenrights has launched an annual cultural fund, designed to foster the creation and appreciation of screen content in Australia and New Zealand, with the total pool of funds available in this year's round coming to $200,000.
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Rita Kalnejais has adapted her play 'Babyteeth' for screen, with Ben Mendelsohn and Essie Davis attached to lead the cast of the comedy which follows a couple who discover their ill teenage daughter has fallen in love with a drug dealer.
Dame Changer’s inaugural Screen Tank program is underway, seeing a variety of female-led projects workshopped by industry experts.
The local feature films and feature documentaries released in cinemas in the first four months of this year, plus a few holdovers, have collectively grossed $32 million.
Canada’s Kew Media Group has acquired Essential Quail Media, a joint venture between Essential Media and Entertainment and Quail Television, for an initial purchase price of $32.8 million, comprising $20 million in cash and $12.8 million in shares.
Emerging and experimental filmmakers who have long felt it is unfair that their low-budget works compete with far bigger Australian films in the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Awards have won their argument.
Screentime has appointed experienced producer/director Colin Thrupp as head of its new office in South Australia, which has kicked off by producing the 12th season of RBT for the Nine Network.
Australian critics hailed 'Gurrumul', the bio of Australia's most successful indigenous musician Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu as must-see and moving, mesmerising and genuinely from the heart