The agency has stumped up $1 million in production investment for seven new documentaries.
Screen Australia has announced $1.9 million in production funding for 10 documentaries through the Producer program and one through the Commissioned program.
Screen Tasmania has invested more than $45,000 to support the development of two feature films and a TV drama series.
Heartbreak High duo Sherry-Lee Watson and Will McDonald have made their way to the Northern Territory with experienced campaigners Miranda Otto and Noah Taylor for Stan series 'Thou Shalt Not Steal'.
After producing 'She Who Must Be Loved' and 'Robbie Hood' and co-producing 'The Beach', Tanith Glynn-Maloney is sticking to her mission of telling "blackfella" stories.
Bunya Productions' 'Mystery Road: Origin' is underway in Western Australia's Kalgoorlie-Boulder for the ABC, with a stacked ensemble cast to join Mark Coles Smith as a young Jay Swan.
Filmmaker Warwick Thornton was mentally and physically exhausted last year so he decided to spend a couple of months in isolation on a remote beach on the north-west coast of Western Australia.
Director Warwick Thornton decided to make his latest documentary 'We Don't Need A Map' following backlash he received when he compared the Southern Cross to a swastika.