Josiah Allen and Indianna Bell's thriller short 'The Recordist' leads the nominations for the 23rd South Australian Screen Awards, featuring in seven categories.
Emerging screenwriters Dylan Coleman and Sally Hardy, producer Craig Jackson and cinema programmer Aimee Knight are the inaugural creatives to participate in the City of Adelaide and Mercury CX's Hothouse Creative Residencies.
Emma Hough Hobbs has won the inaugural $35,000 Hanlon Larsen Screen Fellowship, which will provide her support to produce her experimental film project, 'Film On Film' (working title).
South Australia's Mercury CX has undergone an overhaul of its operations in an attempt to remain solvent, with a new board restructuring its model to reduce overheads and engaging an interim general manager to replace outgoing CEO, Karena Slaninka.
South Australian not-for-profit screen organisation Mercury CX will introduce a monthly subscription model as part of a new business plan unveiled at its annual general meeting this week.
South Australia's Mercury CX reports it will close in the next three months unless it secures $700,000 worth of funding via government or philanthropic means.
Meg Lefauve and Lorien McKenna, the scribes behind 'Inside Out', 'The Good Dinosaur' and 'Captain Marvel 'and hosts of podcast The Screenwriting Life, will be among the keynote speakers at this year's Screenmakers Conference and Market.
The annual Screenmakers Conference will be held online in late August, featuring keynote speakers director Daina Reid and showrunner/writer Pete McTighe, a mentoring program and the $15,000 Pitch-o-rama competition.