Alastair McKinnon has been appointed deputy head of ABC TV fiction.
Filming will start this month on the ABC's Blue Water Empire, a dramatised documentary series about the history of the Torres Strait Islands.
Two features, 'Wonderful Unknown' and 'Dirt Music', as well as a six-part drama series from Greer Simpkin and David Jowsey, are set to shoot in Western Australia, thanks to the $16 million WA Regional Film Fund.
Director Warwick Thornton decided to make his latest documentary 'We Don't Need A Map' following backlash he received when he compared the Southern Cross to a swastika.
Detective Jay Swan, the protagonist in Ivan Sen's films 'Mystery Road' and 'Goldstone', is headed to the small screen.
'Sweet Country', Warwick Thornton’s 1920s-set outback Western starring Sam Neill, Bryan Brown and Ewen Leslie, is set to make its world premiere in competition at Venice Film Festival.
A spin-off of Ivan Sen’s feature films 'Mystery Road' and 'Goldstone', the six-part series produced by Bunya Productions’ David Jowsey and Greer Simpkin is set to begin production this week in WA’s East Kimberley region.
Warwick Thornton’s period Western 'Sweet Country' has won a key prize at the Toronto International Film Festival, judged the best of 12 titles in the Platform program of director’s cinema.