Actress Bridie McKim speaks with IF about continuing the industry conversation in regards to supporting and employing people with disability.
Screen Australia has unveiled the two studios that will share $600,000 through its First Nations Games Studio Fund, while also announcing $2.4 million for 21 games as part of the Games: Expansion Pack.
Sight and Sound magazine listed only two Australian features among its 50 best films of 2022. One was Baz Luhrmann’s 'Elvis', and the other a self-financed feature debut, 'The Plains'. Since launching on Mubi, Letterboxd reviews variously describe it as “the exact kind of unflinching, experimental but still accessible film that Screen Australia should be funding” and “maybe the best Australian film of the century”.
Robert Connolly’s 'Force of Nature: The Dry 2' will have its Australian and New Zealand release date rescheduled as a result of the SAG-AFTRA strike.
Writer, producer, and director Taryne Laffar has joined NITV as commissioning editor.
Screen Canberra has announced it put $498,832 towards 10 different projects across the 2022-23 financial year via the CBR Screen Investment Fund, including the third season of ABC/Blackfella Films' 'Total Control', a variety of docs from WildBear Entertainment, and comedy series 'Paranormal Blacktivity' from Yoowarni Productions.
Australian employers now have increased legal obligations to protect the mental wellbeing of employees. IF finds out what that means for the screen industry.
In forcing the film and television industry to explore new ways of working, the pandemic may also have inadvertently exposed the superfluousness of the long days synonymous with production. IF explores change in the air.