The six young stars at the centre of Brindle Films’ 'MaveriX' have been revealed as production on the ten-part series commences in Alice Springs.
Australian Children's Television Foundation CEO Jenny Buckland has paid tribute to chair Janet Holmes à Court after it was revealed the businesswoman and philanthropist would be stepping down from her position after nearly four decades.
Young actor Charlotte Maggi will go from riding dirt bikes in the centre of Australia for Brindle Films’ 'MaveriX' to taking up residence in a colony at the edge of the galaxy as part of Zack Snyder's Netflix sci-fi 'Rebel Moon'.
With 'MaveriX', 'True Colours', 'Barrumbi Kids', 'Matt Wright's Wild Territory', 'Outback Ringer' season 2, 'The First Inventors' and 'The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart', the 2021-22 financial year proved the biggest year of production yet for the Northern Territory.
This year's AACTA Award for Best Film will be a contest between Baz Luhrmann’s 'Elvis', George Miller’s 'Three Thousand Years of Longing', Leah Purcell’s 'The Drover's Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson', Thomas M. Wright's 'The Stranger', Western Sydney anthology feature 'Here Out West', and Hannah Barlow and Kane Senes' horror 'Sissy'.
The ABC and Netflix have co-ordered children's series 'MaveriX' from Brindle Films, set in the world of junior motocross and due to shoot in Alice Springs in 2021.
The South Australian Film Corporation will commit $5.2 million over three years to an ABC-specific matched development fund as part of a new partnership between the national broadcaster and the state agency.
With the future of Australian drama under the microscope in wake of relaxed local content quotas, there was always going to be added interest in the ABC's 2022 slate.