Magpie Pictures has outlined its next steps after being included in the latest round of Screen Australia Enterprise funding, welcoming Matthew Kelly as a consulting business executive and EP, and Claire Lindsay and Ree Evans in a shared development producer role.
Screen Australia has announced that 18 individual opportunities and 18 business proposals will share $5.2 million of Enterprise funding.
Magpie Pictures’ crime drama 'Swift Street' stars Cliff Curtis as jaded old-school hustler Robert and Tanzyn Crawford as his 21-year-old daughter Elsie, who must team up with her dad to get him out of debt and save him from a merciless crime boss who wants her money urgently.
Magpie Pictures’ 'Swift Street' will have its world premiere in competition at next month's Canneseries as one of eight global entries in the short-form category.
A new romance from Easy Tiger spanning Australia and India, along with some star power for previously announced crime drama 'Swift Street', led the scripted announcements for SBS as it unveiled its "biggest ever content line-up" for 2024 today.
A new crime drama about "innate hustle and punkness" will begin production for SBS in Melbourne later this year.
Screen Australia and Australians in Film have revealed the participants for this year's Talent Gateway and the Global Producers Exchange programs.
Feature films from directors Tony Ayres and Gracie Otto, as well Aunty Donna’s production company Haven’t You Done Well Productions, are among the 33 projects to share in $1 million of story development funding from Screen Australia.