LGBTIQ+ filmmakers will have the chance to win $10,000 towards the production of a short film or web series pilot via Queer Screen's Pitch Off.
Network 10 and Screen Australia have launched a new documentary initiative, Out Here, focused on LGBTQI+ diversity in rural and regional communities.
A drama about a gay teenager with a disability who changes into the body of a beautiful woman so that he can find love has become the first Australian film to win a $US20,000 prize at Korea’s Busan International Film Festival.
ABC Arts and Screen Australia have backed 10 LGBTQI-filmmaking teams with $10,000 each to create projects to mark the 40th anniversary of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.
Create NSW and SBS have backed six teams of emerging filmmakers with $180,000 to create shorts which will air next year as part of SBS's coverage of the 40th Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.
Next year will mark 40 years since the first Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, and ahead of the celebrations two short film initiatives focused on LGBTIQ filmmakers have been launched.
In an Australian first, SBS has secured the international streaming rights for the SBS 2 broadcast of Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras 2014 on Sunday, March 2 at 8:30pm.
Documentaries about transgender porn stars, biopics of famous lesbian poets, evocative coming-of-age dramas and witty indie teen comedies, are just some of the queer-tinged viewing treats that audiences can expect when the 21st Mardi Gras Film Festival hi