Village Roadshow Entertainment Group CEO Greg Basser and his wife Kiera O’Neill will join with Screen Australia and G’Day USA to provide the first-ever scholarships for Australians to attend the American Film Institute (AFI) Conservatory – the world-renowned, graduate-level film training program.
Screenwriters in regional areas including Tasmania and the Northern Territory will soon have the chance to apply for the inaugural Regional Screen in LA Scholarship Program.
Rose Byrne, Matt Damon, Naomi Watts, director Gregor Jordan, producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura, director Jeremy Podeswa, Elizabeth Debicki and LA-based casting director Carmen Cuba will be among the official judges for the 10th anniversary of Australians in Film's Heath Ledger Scholarship.
As Australians in Film’s Heath Ledger scholarship celebrates its tenth year, the organisation has made a call for actors from diverse and under-represented communities to apply.
Emma Cooper has been hired by Playmaker Media as the firm's Los Angeles-based executive producer and has joined the board of Australians in Film.
After producing and co-directing the sketch comedy Too Pretty to be Witty under the Screen Australia/ÁBC Fresh Blood initiative, Petra Lovrencic is bound for Hollywood.
Alethea Jones’ first reaction when she was informed she was among the winners of this year’s Screen Australia Breakthrough Award from Australians in Film could not have been more self-effacing.
Director Kate Dennis will be honoured as a trailblazing woman in Hollywood at this year’s Australians in Film (AiF) Awards.