Michael O'Neill, the Sydney-based head of unscripted development at Essential Television 11, has moved to the company''s Los Angeles office.
The US$5m project consists of a ninety minute feature documentary and 4 x 60 minute TV series.
Canada’s Kew Media Group has acquired Essential Quail Media, a joint venture between Essential Media and Entertainment and Quail Television, for an initial purchase price of $32.8 million, comprising $20 million in cash and $12.8 million in shares.
Jenny Woods has retired after more than five decades in the screen industry, the last 25 years as the documentary representative at Film Finances.
Essential Media co-founder and CEO Chris Hilton has quit following a restructure and cost cutting program at the group’s Australian and New Zealand business.
Director Gregory Read (Like Minds) describes the process of creating his recent project, feature documentary Own The Sky, as “chaos...
Screen Australia head of Indigenous Penny Smallacombe and actor, director and arts executive Rhoda Roberts will appear in conversation as the opening keynote of Screenworks' Regional to Global Screen Forum in late March.
Newly founded Australian company Tilt Media will co-produce a six-part documentary series detailing the lives of Ukrainian citizens and of some of its leaders in the wake of Russia’s 2022 invasion.