Josiah Allen and Indianna Bell's thriller short 'The Recordist' leads the nominations for the 23rd South Australian Screen Awards, featuring in seven categories.
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.
The Mercury has announced Bryce Kraehenbuehl as the recipient of this year's $45,000 Hanlon Larsen Screen Fellowship, established to enable experimental and surreal filmmakers to develop a distinctive voice and create bold work for the screen.
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.
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 Australian development program Film Lab: New Voices is again open to creative teams, with First Nations practitioners being encouraged to apply.
Screen training organisation Wide Angle Tasmania is set to cease operation after two decades.