Business and the beach are set to collide in the ABC's 'Barons', an eight-part '70s-set surfing drama from Fremantle, Micanical Media and 2Jons, due to kick off later this year in NSW.
After nearly nine years as head of scripted at Fremantle Australia, Jo Porter is moving on to lead Playmaker Media.
When the prison gates open on season 8 two new heritage characters arrive on the prison bus, Lou ‘Fingers’ Kelly (Kate Box) and Reb Keane (Zoe Terakes); also entering the building is new General Manager Ann Reynolds (Jane Hall). In episode three, young British hacktivist Judy Bryant (Vivienne Awosoga) joins the inmates and immediately wins the support of the women, and later in the series new character Sheila Bausch (Marta Dusseldorp) enters the compound on remand for mass murder.
Leading Australian actress Marta Dusseldorp will join the stellar ensemble cast for Season 8 playing Sheila Bausch who comes to 'Wentworth' on remand for the murder of nine people at True Path, a cult-like lifestyle retreat. Highly intelligent, charismatic and manipulative, Sheila worked as the personal secretary for True Path’s founder, Dr Mendel (Brian Vriends).
Seven creatives from across regional NSW and one from the Pilbara in Western Australia have been selected to participate in Screenworks 2020 Career Pathways Program, funded by Screen NSW and Screenwest.
'Snowtown' and 'True History of the Kelly Gang' collaborators, director Justin Kurzel and writer Shaun Grant, will bring to life the series adaptation of Richard Flanagan’s 2014 Man Booker prize-winning novel 'The Narrow Road to the Deep North' for Fremantle.
Fremantle Asia Pacific CEO Chris Oliver-Taylor and accountant/consultant Liz Grainger have joined the Film Victoria board, succeeding Debra Allanson and John Rundell whose terms ended last month.