Finding stories with heart and humour from fresh voices will be a key commissioning focus for Australia's public broadcasters in 2023 as they seek to emphasise their point of difference in an evolving marketplace.
Asher Keddie, Leah Purcell, and Alycia Debnam-Carey will join Sigourney Weaver in leading the cast of Amazon's seven-part drama 'The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart'.
SBS's queer, revisionist take on Australia during World War II, 'While The Men Are Away', managed to lure director Elissa Down home to Australia for work for the first time in more than a decade.
SBS has unveiled the lead cast and directors of Arcadia's 1940s-set 'While The Men Are Away', with Gemma Ward making her screen return alongside Benedict Hardie and rising stars of stage and screen, Shaka Cook and Max McKenna.
Lingo Pictures' eight-part drama 'The Messenger' has found a German co-production partner in FabFiction - a scripted co-production initiative between ARD’s public broadcasters NDR, SWR and WDR.
Italian star Michela De Rossi has taken up a central role in Arcadia’s 1940s-set 'While The Men Are Away', which has begun filming in Sydney.
New seasons of 'Total Control' and children's titles 'Rock Island Mysteries' and 'Strange Chores', as well as feature film projects from Northern Pictures, Made Up Stories and Causeway Films are among the nine projects that will share in $12 million of production funding from Screen Australia.
High-profile talent on both sides of camera punctuate the four feature films, three television dramas, and one virtual reality project that will share in more than $6.5 million of production funding from Screen Australia.