Strauss, who received Gender Matters: Brilliant Stories funding last year, is adapting Robert Wainwright's biography of Sheila Chisholm, the daughter of a wealthy grazier from NSW who arrived in London society in 1914.
Netflix series 'Surviving Summer' stars Sky Katz as Summer Torres, a fierce Brooklyn teen who’s been sent Down Under to live with family friends, the Gibsons, in a tiny coastal town on the Great Ocean Road.
The second season of ABC’s 'The Newsreader' picks up a year on from the events of season one, with Helen (Anna Torv) and Dale (Sam Reid) now established as ‘The Golden Couple of News’.
The second season of ABC's 'The Newsreader' will travel from election night 1987, through the shocks of the Hoddle Street shootings and the Stock Market Crash, the complexity of the heroin crisis, towards the protest and pageantry of the 1988 Bicentenary.
Anna Torv and Sam Reid lead the cast of the ABC's upcoming six-part drama series 'The Newsreader' set to premiere August 15 at 8.30pm on ABC TV and ABC iview.
"When you're working with IP in any way, my M.O. is to learn to speak that language fluently, but then tell your own story with it. We were not there to remake the '70s 'Grease'. We were there to tell the story of the origin story of the Pink Ladies."
Independent company Werner Film Productions, responsible for 'Surviving Summer' and 'The Newsreader', will be brought under BBC Studios Productions Australia as part of a new deal designed to grow the distributor's investment in the Australian market.
Former publicist for Paramount Pictures and Universal Studios Kate Ledger joins the board, and Ausfilm’s EVP of international production Kate Marks become president.