This year is shaping as the most eventful and action-packed in the 20-year-career of Indigenous writer-director-producer-actor Leah Purcell.
Melbourne and Brisbane-based Continuance Pictures has launched a short film fund offering up to $10,000 per project for emerging filmmakers whose shorts would serve as concepts for feature films or TV series.
After acting in the position more than six months, James Dickinson has been officially named Screenrights chief executive.
Comedy feature 'The Chain Breakers', to star Jacki Weaver, Jack Thompson, James Cromwell, Denis Waterman and Shane Jacobson, is one of seven projects to have recently received production funding from Screen Australia.
Given the commercial pressures facing Australia's free-to-air networks and funding agencies, the industry should look to private investors to fill the widening gap in financing TV dramas and features, according to Deanne Weir.
While Australian feature documentaries are consistently punching above their weight at home and internationally leading filmmakers say the sector is facing several challenges-
All the talk about the need for structural and cultural change in the screen industry must be converted into widespread action, according to Women in Film & Television (WIFT) Australia
Tony Ayres identifies the primary challenge for TV content makers this year as creating work that not only makes an immediate impact but maintains quality for the whole series.