Emerging to mid-level NSW creatives have a new avenue to develop their feature film ideas after Screen NSW launched the Short Film to Feature Fast Track initiative.
An exploration of neurodiversity, a comedy-drama about a vision-impaired woman who strikes up an unlikely friendship in remote NSW, and a drama highlighting the complexities of being a hard-of-hearing teenage girl make up the projects to be produced via this year's Screenability Filmmakers Fund.
SXSW Sydney unveiled a first look at its conference and music festival line-up at a press conference yesterday, and announced the event will have a "walkable footprint" around the CBD and Tech Central district of Haymarket, Darling Harbour, Ultimo and Chippendale.
New South Wales may house the most production of any state in Australia but the lines of communication are still well and truly open between the industry and the state's screen agency, according to Screen NSW head Kyas Hepworth.
Rhian Skirving and John Harvey’s four-part documentary series, Off Country, follows the lives of seven Indigenous students over a year at the prestigious Geelong Grammar School
The Ausfilm Board has reappointed Sam Mostyn as its independent chair for a three-year term commencing May 2022.
Screenworks has revealed the final round of speakers and sessions for the upcoming Regional to Global Screen Forum, with Stan head of scripted Amanda Duthie, Netflix creative executive Susie Jones, and Hoodlum Entertainment chief content officer Tracey Vieira among the new additions to the line-up
NITV head of commissioning and programming Kyas Hepworth has been appointed head of Screen NSW, filling the vacancy left by Grainne Brunsdon earlier this year.