For Vicki Madden, Blake Ayshford, Glendyn Ivin and no doubt myriad other content creators, the challenge is to find unique Australian stories which resonate internationally and can cut through the worldwide glut of English-language drama.
A number of Australian films premiering at the Adelaide Film Festival have had marketing-focused facelifts in recent weeks in order to make them more appealing to audiences.
Members of the Australian Directors’ Guild have benefitted from the knowledge that comes with being among the country’s most established filmmakers across the past five months as part of the ADG-40 'First-Hand' sessions.
Amazon Prime Video launched a slate of seven new local originals at a showcase event in Sydney last week, including projects from Made Up Stories, Cate Blanchett's Dirty Films, Matchbox Pictures and Guesswork Television.
Asher Keddie and Alex Dimitriades have joined the cast of 'The Cry', the four-part psychological thriller commissioned by the BBC.
Asher Keddie, Leah Purcell, and Alycia Debnam-Carey will join Sigourney Weaver in leading the cast of Amazon's seven-part drama 'The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart'.
The UK’s BBC 4 has acquired Matchbox Pictures’ Safe Harbour, the four-part psychological thriller directed by Glendyn Ivin and produced by Stephen Corvini.
Matchbox Pictures’ 'Safe Harbour' was one of the most superbly produced, critically acclaimed and deftly promoted Australian dramas of recent years: so why were the overnight audiences on SBS relatively low?