Greater scrutiny of feature film projects and more emphasis on stories that can travel are among the focuses for two of the country's leading production companies in the year ahead amid ongoing challenges in the theatrical landscape.
Outgoing Screen Queensland CEO Kylie Munnich will take up the top job at Goalpost Pictures from November 1.
In partnership with Screen Queensland, Panavision is heading to Cairns to deliver creative and technical camera workshops
Screen Queensland and Screenworks have formed a Far North and North Queensland Screen Advisory Committee to support the former’s multi-year $4 million North Queensland Regional Program.
Screen Queensland will support seven games projects from the state with more than $1 million in development funding while also helping nine studios attend this week's Gamescom digital games conference in Cologne, Germany.
Production is underway in the South Australian mining town of Coober Pedy on a neo-western whodunnit from auteur Ivan Sen, starring Simon Baker, Rob Collins, Natasha Wanganeen, and Nicholas Hope.
US-based filmmaker Rita Baghdadi and actor, screenwriter, and producer Aaron Fa’Aoso will appear at next month's Regionality Cairns, with the full program for documentary and factual industry event unveiled this week.
Screen Queensland has appointed Mark Melrose as manager of studio operations as it prepares to start construction on a new production facility in Cairns.