Female directors have taken the lion's share of nominations for this year's Australian Directors' Guild awards, with Sian Davies and Stef Smith each securing three nods and their counterparts dominating the feature film categories.
The titles that will contend for Best Feature Film Production, Best Drama Series Production, and Telemovie or Mini-Series Production of the Year at next year's Screen Producers Australia Awards have been revealed, with voting now open for the penultimate round of finalists.
After collaborating on multiple projects including 'Harrow', 'Tidelands' and 'Secrets & Lies' for seven years, creators/showrunners Stephen M. Irwin and Leigh McGrath have launched their own production company.
Michael Lucas, who co-created Network 10's 'Five Bedrooms' with Christine Bartlett, reached out to emerging writer Xavier Coy last year after reading Coy's play 'Not Even God Can Save Us'.
Hoodlum Entertainment has appointed Tracey Vieira as chief content officer, aiming to build on the foundations of shows such as 'Harrow', 'Five Bedrooms' and 'Tidelands' and its first-look deal with Disney’s ABC Studios International.
Acclaimed director and screenwriter Shirley Barrett has died aged 60.
ViacomCBS is calling for the scrapping of the drama quota, pointing to the steep decline in commercial free-to-air viewing of Australian dramas in the past 10 years, which is worse than the overall drop in FTA levels.