Greg Mclean and Alison Nisselle are among the five industry leaders honoured by Film Victoria at last night’s Screen Leader Awards.
Filming has started in Melbourne on The Warriors, a new eight-part Indigenous comedy drama for the ABC.
The Secret Life of Pets has reclaimed the box office top spot, ringing up almost $3.4 million over the weekend.
The initiative aims to secure a pipeline of TV titles into the state over the next two years and will deliver an estimated $80 million in production expenditure to the state, Film Victoria said in a statement.
PostScript & Direct is aimed at writers with polished narrative feature film scripts rather than those in the early stages of development.
The program has two strands: Production placements for specific and shorter-term placements, and company placements for those looking to work on various projects at a production company for a longer period of time.
Film Victoria will award grants of up to $25,000 for female practitioners in the gaming industry as part of its Women in Games fellowship.
Documentary filmmaker Sonya Pemberton and post production maven John Fleming are the latest recipients of the Film Victoria Screen Leader Awards.