Screen Australia and Australians in Film have announced the participants for the Talent Gateway and the Global Producers Exchange, both designed to connect Australian creatives with key US decision-makers.
Australian films have won in two categories at this year's LA Shorts International Film Festival, with Jon Bell's 'The Moogai' awarded Best Horror and Tony Radevski's 'Risen' named Best Sci-Fi.
Nearly 30 projects will share in $975,000 of story development funding from Screen Australia, including a television series inspired by the 1999 film 'Two Hands' from director Gregor Jordan, and a family feature film from the producers of 'Bluey'.
Jon Bell's psychological horror short 'The Moogai' was among the winners at this year's SXSW, awarded the Jury Prize in the Midnight Shorts section at the virtually-held festival on the weekend.
Noomi Rapace ('The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo'), Anamaria Marinca ('4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days'), Alice Englert, Carloto Cotta ('Tabu') and Félix Maritaud ('Sauvage') are among the cast of writer-director Goran Stolevski's 'You Won't Be Alone', which recently wrapped filming in Serbia.
Eighteen production companies will share in $1.7 million via Screen NSW's slate development fund, established in response to COVID-19.
'Babyteeth' producer Alex White has joined Causeway Films as a development producer, charged with advancing the company’s slate while it heads into simultaneous production on two features.
Toni Collette's directorial debut, an animated series based on 'The Sapphires' and a Shakespeare-inspired anthology are among the 42 projects to recently share in $1.4 million of development funding from Screen Australia.