Film Victoria has announced $2 million in production funding across 11 film, television and online projects, including Matchbox Pictures' upcoming SBS series 'Hungry Ghosts'.
Women's collective Dame Changer will host an International Women’s Day event tomorrow evening in Sydney, to mark the organisation's first anniversary.
The screen industry needs to stop cutting writers' fees and to do a lot better in providing career paths for writers, according to Guesswork Television MD Kevin Whyte.
"There is no shortage of original ideas and top-class writers in Australia. Only a shortage of willingness to develop them and their ideas properly. Cautious and cynical production and programming are increasingly the order of the day."
Producer Sue Clothier has teamed with the MDs of distributor Transmission Films, Richard Payten and Andrew Mackie, to form production company Utopia.
I’ve only been writing a short time by industry standards after spending 10 years on strategy and technology for the resources sector and consulting for other industries.
Nine Network and UKTV’s channel Eden in the UK have commissioned an observational documentary following an Aussie vet as he encounters wild and domestic animals in remote, inhospitable locations.
Max Bourke will undertake a six month placement with BBC Studios' documentary department in the UK, thanks to a partnership between BBC Studios Australia, the Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC) and Create NSW.