Based on the infamous Great Emu War of 1932, Lisa Fineberg, John Campbell, and Jay Morrissey‘s 'The Emu War' follows a rag-tag platoon of soldiers who are driven into a brutal and bloody battle against Australia’s deadliest flightless beasts.
Shaun Grant made it three wins in three years at Tuesday's AWGIE Awards, collecting the original feature prize for 'Nitram' to go with his previous film adaptation wins for 'Penguin Bloom' and 'The True History of the Kelly Gang'.
Screen Australia and Australians in Film have announced the participants for the Talent Gateway and the Global Producers Exchange, both designed to connect Australian creatives with key US decision-makers.
Premiering February 16 on ABC TV Plus and ABC iview, 'Why Are You Like This' follows three 20-something through the contemporary divisive socio-political hellscape of the modern world.
"It's a show about shaming, the outrage in the media cycle and the audience's involvement in how that cycle perpetuates itself,"
Comedy 'Why Are You Like This', one of four pilots supported through Screen Australia and the ABC's Fresh Blood initiative, has been greenlit for a six-part series.