Screen Australia is providing more than $400,000 in story development funding for 16 projects including feature films, television and online series, featuring such talent as Bruna Papandrea, Nick Verso, Priscilla Cameron, Lisa Shaunessy, Anthony Mullins, Kodie Bedford and Tegan Higginbotham.
Screen Canberra has backed seven projects with $355,000, including horror film 'Sissy', expected to shoot by the end of the year.
Blackfella Films company director Darren Dale, actor/director Rhoda Roberts, and screenwriting pair Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna will headline Screenworks' annual Regional To Global Screen Forum, which will be held as a hybrid event next month.
VFX supervisor turned director Seth Larney will return to Australia to make his next film, dystopian thriller '2067', with the project having recently received production investment from Screen Australia, the South Australian Film Corporation and Create NSW.
Released by AMC Networks’ RLJE Films on-demand and on 15 screens in the US last weekend, Seth Larney's '2067' ranks in fourth spot on the US iTunes digital chart.
Writer-director Seth Larney's sci-fi thriller '2067' will open the Adelaide Film Festival in October, its world premiere.
Seth Larney’s sci-fi mystery thriller '2067' will be released in China on at least 10,000 screens next year.
Sci-fi adventure '2067' has proven to be a standout among local audiences, with Netflix revealing Seth Larney's film has spent the most days as the most popular movie in the country since the streaming platform added ranking lists to the service.