Film Victoria has announced $2 million in production funding across 11 film, television and online projects, including Matchbox Pictures' upcoming SBS series 'Hungry Ghosts'.
Production is underway in South Australia on British director Francis Annan's feature debut 'Escape From Pretoria', starring Daniel Radcliffe and Aussie Daniel Webber.
The inaugural BIRRARANGGA Film Festival, a celebration of Indigenous filmmakers from around the world, will be staged at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image from April 26 – 29.
Documentary producer Kim Ingles will join GoodThing Productions for 12 months as an associate impact producer, thanks to support from Film Victoria.
'Wentworth''s Bernard Curry and NIDA grad Ebony Vagulans will star alongside Lucy Lawless in CJZ mystery drama 'My Life Is Murder', which enters production today in Melbourne for Network 10.
Fremantle and Film Victoria are currently offering three writer placements and three director placements for early-to-mid career Victorian practitioners on 'Neighbours'.
Early next year, Victorian producer Sarah Freeman will begin a six-month placement in LA working with LuckyChap Entertainment, the production company founded by Margot Robbie, Tom Ackerley and Josey McNamara.
In a major boost for Victoria, the fourth season of Sony Pictures Television's 'Preacher' will shoot in Melbourne and regional Victoria, injecting $50 million into the state's economy.