Marta Dusseldorp, Melinda Vidler, and Albert Mwangi will come together in Adelaide next week for the production Kelly Schilling's 'With or Without You', a real-life inspired mother-daughter story of finding love and safety from tough beginnings.
SixtyFourSixty's Brian Rosen and Su Armstrong will be jointly presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award at new week's Screen Producers Australia Awards.
A feature film from Mia Wasikowska and a TikTok mockumentary series from the creators of 'Turn Up The Volume' are among the projects to be included in the newest round of story development funding from Screen Australia.
Screen Tasmania is supporting the development of 13 projects – a mix of feature films, comedy and drama series and factual – involving both experienced and emerging talent.
While most live-action production has shutdown, an army of more than 250 animators from Flying Bark Productions are working remotely across Sydney and in other states on a TV series and two feature films.
Expat Australian filmmakers in Los Angeles and London are coping as best they can through the COVID-19 pandemic, including supporting each other.
Over the next five years Australian producers will find it even harder to secure theatrical releases for their films around the world but films will be capable of reaching even more eyeballs via myriad digital platforms.
Screen Producers Australia president Brian Rosen today called on Screen Australia and government to devise new policies to boost levels of film production and to help local films reach wider audiences.