Screen Producers Australia has released the full program for this year's Screen Forever conference, shaping its schedule around the strands of Story and Vision, Shifting the Status Quo and Markets, and Trends & Finance.
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.
A prescient speech by a US president was the catalyst for the sequel to Foxtel's political thriller 'Secret City'.
An air hostess escaping a cult, an Afghan refugee saving his family, an Australian father escaping a dead-end job and a bureaucrat trying to contain a national scandal each struggle – to the limits of their sanity – with an immigration system that is itself struggling.
Teresa Palmer will play Michelle Payne, the first female jockey to win the Melbourne Cup in 2015.
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.
Mohini Herse's 'Appetite' will have its world premiere at next month's Canneseries, where it will be the only Australian production to feature in-competition.
Production company Typecast has announced the successful applicants for its inaugural Inspirit Lab initiative, which will see Indigenous filmmakers assemble for a simulated writers room.