Alana Hicks, Grace Feng and Llewellyn Michael Bates will each receive $24,000 to produce a short work thanks to Talent Camp, a joint initiative of AFTRS, Screen Australia and the state screen agencies to bolster emerging talent from diverse backgrounds.
Go Viral! an innovative project that aims to unearth ground-breaking filmmakers of the future by enabling them to create micro-films and helping their works to reach audiences, launched today.
The first project to receive development funding via Studiocanal’s Australia and New Zealand-focused Cultivator Fund is Helena, a biopic about the Polish-Australian-American cosmetics businesswoman, art collector and philanthropist Helena Rubinstein.
Elizabeth W. Scott has been appointed Create NSW’s executive director, investment and engagement, replacing Michael Brealey who resigned in March.
Musician, comedian, writer and actor Tim Minchin will lead the cast of Lingo Pictures’ eight-part series 'Upright', a co-commission between Foxtel and Sky UK which will shoot in SA and WA in October.
With Create NSW’s ‘50:50 by 2020’ gender equity target now at a halfway point, the New South Wales Government has announced a $100,000 development initiative to increase the number of women directing TV drama.
Fresh off a Sydney Film Festival win for his doco 'Ghosthunter', writer-director Ben Lawrence has received funding from Screen Australia and Create NSW for narrative feature 'Hearts and Bones', set in Western Sydney.