'Babyteeth' producer Alex White has joined Causeway Films as a development producer, charged with advancing the company’s slate while it heads into simultaneous production on two features.
Second features from directors Natalie Erika James ('Relic') and Samuel Van Grinsven ('Sequin in a Blue Room') are among the 28 projects to recently share in $1 million worth of development funding from Screen Australia.
Noomi Rapace ('The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo'), Anamaria Marinca ('4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days'), Alice Englert, Carloto Cotta ('Tabu') and Félix Maritaud ('Sauvage') are among the cast of writer-director Goran Stolevski's 'You Won't Be Alone', which recently wrapped filming in Serbia.
Jon Bell's psychological horror short 'The Moogai' was among the winners at this year's SXSW, awarded the Jury Prize in the Midnight Shorts section at the virtually-held festival on the weekend.
Nearly 30 projects will share in $975,000 of story development funding from Screen Australia, including a television series inspired by the 1999 film 'Two Hands' from director Gregor Jordan, and a family feature film from the producers of 'Bluey'.
Australian films have won in two categories at this year's LA Shorts International Film Festival, with Jon Bell's 'The Moogai' awarded Best Horror and Tony Radevski's 'Risen' named Best Sci-Fi.
Screen Australia and Australians in Film have announced the participants for the Talent Gateway and the Global Producers Exchange, both designed to connect Australian creatives with key US decision-makers.
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.