Virginia Trioli hosted Film Victoria’s Jenni Tosi, Screen NSW’s Courtney Gibson, Screen Australia’s Documentary Senior Manager Liz Stevens, ABC Head of Factual Steve Bibb and SBS’s Head of Documentaries John Godfrey in a panel discussion.
Bernadine Lim, the executive producer of SBS's 'Dateline' will join Screen Australia as head of documentary on November 8, succeeding Liz Stevens who departed in August after 10 years as senior manager of documentary.
Screen Australia and News Digital Networks Australia’s whimn.com.au today announced the five recipients of the second series of Doco180. With a maximum 180 seconds, the winners must create documentaries designed to make viewers ‘do a 180’ on topics important to Australian women.
Four teams who will share in $200,000 of funding for Art Bites, a joint initiative between ABC Television and Screen Australia that encourages new arts content from emerging Australian filmmakers.
Screen Australia is searching for a head of documentary following the resignation of Liz Stevens, who has served as senior manager for documentary since the agency was created in 2008.
Five documentaries from emerging filmmakers will screen on ABC2 and iview over the next two months as part of the ABC and Screen Australia’s Opening Shot initiative.
“We’re really pleased to support this strong slate of projects from high quality Australian story tellers,†said Screen Australia's Senior Manager for Documentary Liz Stevens.
New seasons of the ABC’s 'War on Waste' and SBS’s 'Go Back to Where You Came From' are among the seven latest documentary projects to receive production investment from Screen Australia.