Over three parts, the documentary series 'The Australian Wars' gives voice to the story of the country’s longest and perhaps most defining war, examining the battles fought on home soil, as the colonial frontier pushed forward, and First Nations peoples resisted.
Subjects ranging from the Australian Open tennis tournament to the country's LGBTQI+ history will be explored in the latest round of documentary projects to receive production funding from Screen Australia.
Production assistant and journalist Gina Song and writer and script editor Madeleine Ruskin are the recipients of this year's Victorian Screen Development internships.
Endemol Shine Australia's 'Old People's Home for 4 Year Olds' has again been honoured at the New York Festivals TV & Film Awards, with the second season of the intergenerational documentary series winning a Grand and Gold Award in the Social Issues category.
Blackfella Films company director Darren Dale, actor/director Rhoda Roberts, and screenwriting pair Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna will headline Screenworks' annual Regional To Global Screen Forum, which will be held as a hybrid event next month.
A slate of 15 television dramas, 11 feature films, and five online series will share in more than $1 million of development funding from Screen Australia.
Vicscreen has brought Paramount Australia and New Zealand, Blackfella Films, and Fremantle Australia on board as participating organisations for this year's Victorian Screen Development Internship program.
A film tracking the 30-year journey of children's band The Wiggles and another celebrating the life of late music executive Michael Gudinski are among the nine projects to share in more than $2.7 million of documentary funding from Screen Australia.