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.
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.
The US$5m project consists of a ninety minute feature documentary and 4 x 60 minute TV series.
Director Gregory Read (Like Minds) describes the process of creating his recent project, feature documentary Own The Sky, as “chaos...
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.
Michael O'Neill, the Sydney-based head of unscripted development at Essential Television 11, has moved to the company''s Los Angeles office.
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.
"It was really important to me that if the show was going to be exploring divergent thinking and neurodiversity we have talent and creatives with that lived experience contributing behind the scenes."