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.
Bruna Papandrea and Steve Hutensky's Made Up Stories has acquired the rights to The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, the debut novel from Australian author Holly Ringland with plans to turn the coming-of-age drama into a TV series.
Nineteen companies, whittled down from 122 applications, will share in $2.9 million worth of Enterprise Funding from Screen Australia.
Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o, 'Beauty and the Beast'’s Josh Gad and 'Offspring'’s Alexander England are starring in 'Little Monsters', Abe Forsythe’s Zombie horror comedy now shooting in Sydney.
Bron Creative, the LA and Vancouver-based company which produced Denzel Washington’s 'Fences' and Nate Parker’s 'The Birth of a Nation', will produce and co-finance the thriller with Bruna Papandrea's Made Up Stories.