The New South Wales Government has renewed Create NSW's Made In NSW fund, announcing today that it will allocate up to $10 million per year towards the fund over the next four years.
This July, directors Anna Broinowski and Ana Kokkinos will run a workshop for 12 early career directors working in regional NSW, regional Queensland, Tasmania and the ACT on behalf of Screenworks.
Corrie Chen, Kris Wyld, Catriona McKenzie, Imogen Banks and Nicole Coventry are among the 10 NSW-based filmmaker teams which will participate in the next stage of a half-hour drama series development partnership between Create NSW and the ABC.
Create NSW has already achieved its target of an average 50:50 gender split in its screen development and production funding programs by 2020.
Damon Herriman will star opposite Mia Wasikowska in writer-director Mirrah Foulkes' 'Judy and Punch', a “brutal, original and violent” re-interpretation of the puppet play ‘Punch and Judy’, which began shooting this week in Victoria.
Create NSW, the ABC and the Western Sydney-based creative hub Information & Cultural Exchange (I.C.E.) are calling for pitches for comedy shorts from NSW-based filmmakers.
Grainne Brundson has been named acting executive director of Create NSW following the resignation of Michael Brealey, who departs at the end of this month.
Ausfilm CEO Debra Richards, Film Finances Australia’s Anni Browning and executive producer Bridget Ikin are among the founding members of Dame Changer, which will launch on International Women’s Day on Thursday,