Years of perseverance in developing feature films and TV series with multiple collaborators are paying off for producer Tania Chambers.
Screen Australia has announced $2.7 million of production funding, going towards two features, one TV drama, one children's drama and five online projects.
The ABC’s 2020 slate is packed with new documentaries and factual series - but there is a distinct air of déjà vu in the categories of drama and comedy.
Australian children’s TV series rarely venture into the fast-paced action adventure genre. Rarer still is a teenage protagonist who is highly intelligent and passionate about science
Comedy feature 'The Chain Breakers', to star Jacki Weaver, Jack Thompson, James Cromwell, Denis Waterman and Shane Jacobson, is one of seven projects to have recently received production funding from Screen Australia.
With a UK deal with the BBC announced last week, Komixx Entertainment's 'Itch' has also been picked up in the US, Finland and New Zealand.
With SBS preparing to select its second group of participants for the Emerging Writers Incubator, one of the program's inaugural members has shared her experience of the nationwide initiative, describing it as "life-changing".
Feisty Dame Productions' Tania Chambers and writer-director Nick Verso have optioned 'Invisible Boys', Holden Sheppard's debut novel which follows three 16-year-olds as they come to terms with their homosexuality in a small town in Western Australia.