Screen Producers Australia has named Matchbox Pictures the Production Business of the Year at its annual awards, held last night at the Forum Theatre in Melbourne.
Production companies Screentime and Matchbox Pictures will set up Adeliade offices, thanks to a partnership with the South Australian Film Corporation (SAFC).
SBS’s Sunshine will attract viewers as an edge-of-the-seat crime thriller which introduces fresh faces and provides insights into a little-known community.
When Amanda Higgs first met Rachel Davis a couple of years ago, the two producers realised they both were keen to make a female-led TV show for young girls – one that wasn’t focused on beauty or boys.
'Oddlands', produced together with Matchbox Pictures, sees Back to Back Theatre – which has an ensemble of actors with disabilities – officially branch into filmmaking.
'Mustangs FC' is a goal-kicking comedy drama about girls who abandon the sidelines and start their football club’s first all-girls team. Against the odds, they’ll stand united and overcome any challenge the club, the boys or the opposition can throw at them, all while wrestling with what it means to be a girl today.
Netflix has beefed up its Australian programming by acquiring international rights to all three series of Matchbox Pictures’ 'Nowhere Boys'.
Leeanna Walsman, Ewen Leslie and Joel Jackson will also star.