Olympia Valance, Annabel Wolfe, and Josh MacQueen have joined the cast of Netflix teen drama 'Surviving Summer', as production on season two gets underway along Victoria's Great Ocean Road.
Screen Australia has announced the final round of story development funding for the 2018-19 financial year, backing five television series, six online projects and six feature films with $675,000.
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.
Screen Australia, together with its Gender Matters Taskforce, used International Women's Day to unveil two initiatives aimed at supporting women and gender-diverse practitioners.
The Federal Government has made three new appointments to the Screen Australia board, including PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Megan Brownlow as deputy chair.
Jeffrey Walker - who helmed eight episodes of the first season - is directing.
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.
Former publicist for Paramount Pictures and Universal Studios Kate Ledger joins the board, and Ausfilm’s EVP of international production Kate Marks become president.