Caroline Pitcher has been named CEO of Film Victoria, succeeding Jenni Tosi.
Film Victoria CEO Jenni Tosi will depart the organisation a year earlier than expected.
While local films were quiet at the box office last year, Aussie TV drama boomed. Jackie Keast catches up with industry leaders to reflect on 2016 and canvass the challenges of the year ahead.
Seventeen film, TV, online and documentary projects will share in over $2.4 million in funding, thanks to the latest round of Film Victoria's Assigned Production Investment program and the Victorian Content Initiative.
The initiative aims to secure a pipeline of TV titles into the state over the next two years and will deliver an estimated $80 million in production expenditure to the state, Film Victoria said in a statement.
Minister for Creative Industries Martin Foley met the cast and crew and toured the set with Butler and Hope.
Created by Lost's Damon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta based on Perrotta’s best-selling novel of the same name, The Leftovers is the largest international television production deal since Childhood’s End was shot in early 2015.
HRAFF program director Malcolm Blaylock called the film "one of the most important Australian documentaries of 2016."