The ABC intends to ramp up digital-first content as well as reaching new audiences, including those who rarely if ever watch broadcast television.
The ABC’s 2020 slate is packed with new documentaries and factual series - but there is a distinct air of déjà vu in the categories of drama and comedy.
Two climate change documentaries fronted by Craig Reucassel, a factual entertainment series which looks at public shaming and teetotaller Shaun Micallef’s expose on the effects of alcohol will premiere on the ABC next year.
Production is about to begin on Porchlight Films' 'Fallout' (working title) for the ABC, a six-part drama inspired by the 1950s British nuclear testing that took place in outback South Australia. Written and directed by Peter Duncan (Rake), the project has attracted a strong cast including Ewen Leslie, Jessica de Gouw, James Cromwell, Ningali Lawford Wolf and Shaka Cook.
Maslin is the keynote speaker at the Gold Coast Film Festival's third annual Women In Film lunch. Presented by Screen Queensland, the lunch recognises the contribution of women in film and television in Australia.
Following the atomic destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, internationally acclaimed novelist Nevil Shute prophetically and emotively predicted the devastating impact of nuclear proliferation in one of the most important anti-war novels of the 20th centu
When the distributor that had agreed to release Fallout pulled out, director Lawrence Johnston and producer Peter Kaufmann decided to self-distribute the documentary which celebrates the life and work of Australian novelist Nevil Shute.
First Footprints, Jabbed, Fallout and Once My Mother were among the winners of the 2013 IPAF ATOM awards presented in Melbourne on Thursday night.