Leah Purcell aims to start shooting the feature film adaptation of her play 'The Drover’s Wife' next September after pitching the project to major players in Hollywood.
This year is shaping as the most eventful and action-packed in the 20-year-career of Indigenous writer-director-producer-actor Leah Purcell.
Rob Collins, Sam Reid and Jessica de Gouw have joined the cast of 'Leah Purcell’s The Drover’s Wife the Legend of Molly Johnson', which is now shooting in NSW.
Up to five Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers will get the opportunity to participate in a workshop with all-rounder Leah Purcell and producing partner Bain Stewart, thanks to Screen Queensland’s First Peoples: First Draft initiative.
Screen Queensland has announced 11 companies to share in just under $1 million in funding, designed to help their businesses pivot and diversify through the pandemic.
After Leah Purcell is released from lockdown - literally - when filming of 'Wentworth' wraps in early September, she will resume developing a raft of feature film and TV projects including a series based on her play and movie 'The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson'.
Writer and creator Enoch Mailangi's five-part series 'All My Friends Are Racist' is set to go into production for ABC iview in November.
The Birrarangga Film Festival will return to Melbourne next month, featuring a collection of feature-length narrative, documentary, and short films.