The Australian Writers' Guild has announced the next cohort of First Break participants, with 13 aspiring screenwriters selected to take part in the WA initiative.
Western Australia is the latest state to welcome the Australian Writers' Guild's First Break initiative, with applications now open for the newest iteration of the screenwriting program.
Screenwest has appointed Martha Coleman and Chris Veerhuis as head of creative: content and industry development and head of production, respectively.
TV drama producers face a balancing act next year: How to take advantage of the 30 per cent Producer Offset while coping with watered-down local content regulations and the financial constraints affecting all Australian broadcasters - public and commercial.
Moreblessing Maturure plans to make her screen directing debut on a segment of 'MASC' (working title), an online anthology which examines modern masculinity through female and non-binary lenses.
Revlover Films' Martha Coleman is producing. The feature has secured matched funding from eOne, who produced Knight's 'The Water Diviner'.
Strauss, who received Gender Matters: Brilliant Stories funding last year, is adapting Robert Wainwright's biography of Sheila Chisholm, the daughter of a wealthy grazier from NSW who arrived in London society in 1914.
Leading TVC production house Revolver and former Screen Australia and Goalpost Pictures executive Martha Coleman have launched film and TV production banner Revlover.