Screen Australia and the Australian Writers' Guild have selected Thomas Duncan-Watt, Vanessa Gazy, Sarah Lambert, Leah Purcell, Giula Sandler, and Alexa Wyatt for the second edition of The Creators accelerator program.
Explorations of evil and entrapment took top honours at Thursday's AWGIE Awards, with Colin Cairnes and Cameron Cairnes' 'Late Night with the Devil' and Kitty Green's 'The Royal Hotel' winning the original and adapted feature prizes, respectively.
'Savage River' tells the story of Miki Anderson (Katherine Langford), who returns to her hometown in rural Victoria after eight years in prison, determined to finally move on with her life.
CJZ's 'Darby and Joan', starring Bryan Brown and Greta Scacchi, will premiere on Acorn TV August 8.
A slate of 15 television dramas, 11 feature films, and five online series will share in more than $1 million of development funding from Screen Australia.
Katherine Langford will be joined by a strong ensemble cast in ABC crime drama 'Savage River', with production now underway in Victoria.
In the Aquarius Films and ABC drama Savage River, Jocelyn Moorhouse was offered the kind of mini-series she'd love to watch herself.
Bryan Brown and Greta Scacchi will lead the new mystery drama 'Darby and Joan', which CJZ is producing for Acorn TV