The third seasons of ABC series' 'Ginger and the Vegesaurs' and 'The Newsreader', as well as a new film from Sophie Hyde about Oscar Wilde's wife, are among the projects to share in $10 million of production funding from Screen Australia.
Screenwest’s West Coast Visions funding, which backs debut feature directors from WA, has proven to be one of the country’s most effective talent escalators. From this year onward, Screen Australia will commit an extra $500,000 to the initiative annually. IF talks to recent recipients, the teams behind 'He Ain't Heavy', now in post, and 'Birthright', now fully financed and set to enter production later this year.
Greta Scacchi and daughter Leila George are set to act alongside each other in David Vincent Smith's 'He Ain't Heavy', a family drama also starring Sam Corlett that is set to begin filming in Perth's south-eastern suburbs next Monday.
Writer-director Antony Webb and producer Jaclyn Hewer's 'Carmentis' has won the $5,000 CinefestOz Short Film Prize.