Screen Australia is backing Bunya Productions, Aunty Donna, Mememe Productions and Southern Pictures among the recipients of more than $1.2 million in funding in its latest Enterprise Business & Ideas and Enterprise People initiatives.
Following two months of industry consultation, Screen Australia’s new guidelines for drama development funding – which are platform neutral and see broadened eligibility criteria - take effect from today.
Revlover Films' Martha Coleman is producing. The feature has secured matched funding from eOne, who produced Knight's 'The Water Diviner'.
"Each creative team is to imagine the episode is like an open letter to their 12-year-old self that explores the hopes, the dreams, the challenges, the hardships and the belly laughs that drive today’s girls," the ABC said in a statement.
Screen Australia’s Hot Shots Short Film Fund, now retitled Hot Shots Plus, has been rebranded as a "proof of concept program". The program will now provide production funding for a narrative proof of concept, and development funding to help turn that p
24 features, five online series and two "high-end" television projects have received development funding.
Screen Australia has appointed Louise Gough as development executive succeeding Nerida Moore, who is promoted to the new role of senior development executive.