Screen Australia, SBS and NITV have announced seven projects from this year’s Digital Originals initiative to receive development funding, with three titles from the group to eventually go into production.
Five horror shorts by emerging Indigenous filmmakers commissioned by the ABC and Screen Australia will premiere as a 75-minute anthology at the Sydney Film Festival.
Bunya Productions' 'Mystery Road: Origin' is underway in Western Australia's Kalgoorlie-Boulder for the ABC, with a stacked ensemble cast to join Mark Coles Smith as a young Jay Swan.
Typecast Entertainment has optioned Tara June Winch's novel 'The Yield' for screen adaption.
Shaun Grant made it three wins in three years at Tuesday's AWGIE Awards, collecting the original feature prize for 'Nitram' to go with his previous film adaptation wins for 'Penguin Bloom' and 'The True History of the Kelly Gang'.
After serving as a script editor on three seasons of 'House Husbands' and writing episodes of 'Rush' and 'Serangoon Road', writer Timothy Lee’s career has gone up a couple of gears.
Yael Stone, Rob Collins, Callan Mulvey and Shantae Barnes-Cowan are the topline cast for AMC Studios and See-Saw Films' vampire series, 'Firebite', now shooting in South Australia.