Australians in Film (AiF) has opened applications for this year's Heath Ledger Scholarship (HLS), offering the most significant prize package yet at US$60,000.
Stan Original series 'Scrublands', based on Chris Hammer's novel of the same name, will premiere November 16 on Stan.
Stan Original series 'C*A*U*G*H*T' follows four Australian soldiers, played by Kick Gurry, Ben O'Toole, Lincoln Younes, and Alexander England, that are sent on a secret mission to a war-torn country after the Australian Minister of Defence (Erik Thomson) texts a ‘secret file’ to the Princess of Behati-Prinsloo, a small island nation.
Stan/Nine co-commission 'Scrublands' has been pre-sold to streamer Sundance Now for audiences in the US and English-speaking Canada.
Stan and Nine have announced their next co-commission following last year's 'Bali 2002', with production underway in Victoria on an adaptation of Chris Hammer's 2018 novel 'Scrublands', starring Luke Arnold, Jay Ryan and Bella Heathcote.
Two-time Academy Award winner Sean Penn will share the spotlight with a host of Australian talent in Kick Gurry's 'C*A*U*G*H*T', a six-part satirical comedy that began filming last week at Sydney's Fox Studios.
Nicholas Burton went from filming Netflix's 'Pieces of Her' to ABC series surf series 'Barons' last year.
Based on the Karin Slaughter's New York Times bestselling novel, 'Pieces of Her' is set in a sleepy Georgia town where a random act of violence sets off an unexpected chain of events for 30-year-old Andy Oliver (Bella Heathcote) and her mother Laura (Toni Collette).