Elise McCredie believes that as screenwriters typically work in isolation at home and many have projects in development, the cohort to which she belongs is best placed to ride out the COVI-19 crisis.
A prescient speech by a US president was the catalyst for the sequel to Foxtel's political thriller 'Secret City'.
Karen Radzyner has joined Photoplay as head of development, bringing to the company a significant slate of projects as it expands further into film and television.
Wooden Horse's 'The Clearing' has begun production in Victoria for Disney+, with Kate Mulvany, Xavier Samuel, Claudia Karvan and Anna Lise Phillips joining the previously announced leads of Teresa Palmer, Miranda Otto and Guy Pearce.
Many feature producers fear the Federal Government's sweeping media reforms will spell the death knell of Australian features, forcing them and some writers and directors to focus on content for streamers or free-to-air broadcasters.
Growing up in Parramatta as the daughter of South Asian parents, Natesha Somasundaram never saw people like her on television.
Netflix has acquired worldwide rights excluding Australia to Stateless, the six-part drama about four strangers whose lives collide in an immigration detention centre in the Australian desert, co-created by Cate Blanchett, Tony Ayres and Elise McCredie.
The writers of 'All Is True', 'Hotel Mumbai', 'Relic', 'Ride Like a Girl' and 'The Favourite' have been nominated for best original feature film in the 52nd annual AWGIE Awards.