ScreenWest's heavy investment in local screen productions is paying dividends with three Western Australian projects set to air on Sunday prime time slots on the ABC.
The Twittersphere lit up with ecstatic responses to Matt Saville's Australian thriller Felony after its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Golapost Pictures Australia producers Rosemary Blight and Kylie Du Fresne have won the FILM PRODUCED BY A WOMAN category of the US based WIN Awards, for THE SAPPHIRES.
Matt Saville's thriller Felony, which stars Joel Edgerton, Tom Wilkinson, Jai Courtney and Melissa George, will get a cinema release in the US via a new distributor.
See-Saw Films' A Long Way Home and Goalpost Pictures' Holding the Man were the only features that received production investment from Screen Australia at the March 26 board meeting.
Game of Thrones' Iain Glen, Frances O'Connor, Deborah Mailman, Hunter Page-Lochard, Rob Collins and Ryan Corr are shooting Cleverman, an innovative six-part futuristic action drama for ABC-TV.
Eddie Perfect is to write and star in The Future is Expensive, the pilot for a half-hour comedy series for ABC-TV.
Screen Australia and Goalpost Pictures' Cleverman will premiere at the upcoming Berlinale - the same berth given to the likes of Better Call Saul and Bloodline at last year's festival.