Screen Territory director Jennie Hughes discusses the next steps for the Northern Territory's screen industry, after welcoming projects from Netflix, Prime Video, Stan, and Paramount.
With 'MaveriX', 'True Colours', 'Barrumbi Kids', 'Matt Wright's Wild Territory', 'Outback Ringer' season 2, 'The First Inventors' and 'The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart', the 2021-22 financial year proved the biggest year of production yet for the Northern Territory.
Travis Akbar is the third recipient of the Centralised First Nations Documentary Australia Fellowship, with the filmmaker to receive a grant of up to $30,000 to develop his project ‘Kuta New Wiltja’ (Toward New Camp), as well as up to $10,000 of in-kind support to attend training opportunities at AFTRS.
Screenworks has confirmed more speakers and sessions for next month's Regional To Global Screen Forum, which will carry a focus on authenticity, diversity and inclusion.
First Nations screen creatives in South Australia and the Northern Territory will have the opportunity to learn new skills in immersive storytelling as part of a new workshop launched under the Centralised cross-state initiative.
Northern Territory creatives will soon have the opportunity to undertake classes from the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) as part of a collaboration between the training institution, Screen Territory and Arts NT.
International production may have a larger share of the limelight in Australia at the moment but its relationship with the local sector remains one of mutual benefit, according to a panel of screen agencies.
State borders may have become more defined in the wake of COVID-19 but the inverse has occurred among the state screen agencies, who presented a united front at this week's Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC).