Veteran TV producer Pam Barnes will be the recipient of this year's Screen Producers Australia Lifetime Achievement Award.
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George Mackay is set to play Ned Kelly in Justin Kurzel's 'True History of the Kelly Gang', starring alongside Russell Crowe, Nicholas Hoult and Essie Davis.
Screen Australia’s Gender Matters initiative is not tackling the male dominance of the film production industry, according to Professor Deb Verhoeven, who proposes a radical solution: deny funding to men who don’t employ women in their creative teams.
Kriv Stenders is attached to direct 'Poacher', a Tasmanian-set seafaring action thriller which will star Luke Bracey and Nick Nolte.
The traditional ways of making movies and TV series no longer make sense, according to veteran writer-director Geoffrey Wright, who is mapping out an entirely new creative process.
The last financial year saw the amount spent on drama production in Australia crack $1 billion for the first time, thanks in part to record levels of foreign project spend and bolstered local feature film production.
Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o, 'Beauty and the Beast'’s Josh Gad and 'Offspring'’s Alexander England are starring in 'Little Monsters', Abe Forsythe’s Zombie horror comedy now shooting in Sydney.
Phillip Noyce is attached to direct 'Killer 10', a WWII action adventure which will follow a gang of expat criminals who are coerced into a suicide mission behind enemy lines.