It may be a new year, but concerns remain for the future of children's television, with producers and creatives waiting to see how the sector will factor into the government's incoming streaming regulation.
Australia has representation across six categories for this year's Rockie Awards, held as part of the Banff World Media Festival in June.
The South Australian Film Corporation will commit $5.2 million over three years to an ABC-specific matched development fund as part of a new partnership between the national broadcaster and the state agency.
Epic Films' 'First Day' is poised to win its second Emmy, nominated for Outstanding Young Teen Series at the inaugural Children's and Family Emmy Awards.
This year's AACTA Award for Best Film will be a contest between Baz Luhrmann’s 'Elvis', George Miller’s 'Three Thousand Years of Longing', Leah Purcell’s 'The Drover's Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson', Thomas M. Wright's 'The Stranger', Western Sydney anthology feature 'Here Out West', and Hannah Barlow and Kane Senes' horror 'Sissy'.
Three Australian projects have been nominated for MIPCOM Diversify TV Awards: Chemical Media's 'Our African Roots', LADBible Australia's 'Unheard' and Epic Films/KOJO Studios' 'First Day'.
Children’s television has often been a place to push the boundaries of diverse representations onscreen. In particular, Australian children’s TV has been a global leader in screen diversity, including gender and queer representation, write Swinburne's Damien O'Meara and Liam Burke.
Creator, writer and director of the ABC and Hulu's 'First Day', Julie Kalceff, tells IF why the children's series needed a second season.