Screentime will produce 'Pine Gap', a six-part political thriller set in and around the US/Australian spy satellite base in the Northern Territory for the ABC and Netflix.
Netflix has beefed up its Australian programming by acquiring international rights to all three series of Matchbox Pictures’ 'Nowhere Boys'.
Northern Pictures series 'Employable Me', commissioned by the ABC, has been nominated for a Rose d’Or Award for Reality and Factual Entertainment.
In this wrap: ABC head of arts Mandy Chang departs for the BBC; Sally Regan joins Create NSW; Screenwest announces board of directors; Screen Forever advisory board unveiled.
Filming has begun in Brisbane on Hoodlum Entertainment’s 10-part crime drama, 'Harrow', a co-production for ABCTV and the Disney-owned ABC Studios International.
'The Letdown' was one of six pilots aired last year on the ABC via the Comedy Showroom initiative, and the episode went on to pick up an AACTA Award for Best Screenplay in Television.
One of the key things that encouraged AP Pobjoy to apply for the Victorian Screen Development Internship, which sees creatives spend 12 months working across Film Victoria, the ABC and either Fremantle Australia or Princess Pictures, was that their identity was actually listed on the application.
The South Australian Film Corporation and Screen Territory have partnered to launch 'Centralised', an initiative to support Indigenous filmmakers across South Australian and the Northern Territory through new funding, support and development opportunities.