After nearly two years at Netflix ANZ, Penny Smallacombe will take up a new position as head of scripted at Blackfella Films.
SBS has hired Nakul Legha, most recently a creative executive with Netflix, as a commissioning editor in its scripted team.
Gabriel Gasparinatos' documentary 'ONEFOUR: Against All Odds' tracks the meteoric rise of the Sydney-based, Pacific Islander kids who start recording drill raps to avoid a life of crime, only for a police task force to shut down their sold-out national tour due to concerns that the group’s music will incite violence.
Made Up Stories producer Bruna Papandrea, Binge executive director Alison Hurbert-Burns, and First Nations multi-hyphenates Leah Purcell, Kodie Bedford, and Jub Clerc have been added to the SXSW Sydney line-up as the event draws closer.
Netflix has ordered Brouhaha Entertainment's adaptation of Trent Dalton's 'Boy Swallows Universe', more than two years after publisher HarperCollins announced it had sold the screen rights to the author's debut novel.
Fremantle Asia Pacific CEO Chris Oliver-Taylor is set to join Netflix ANZ as head of physical production.
Nakul Legha may have only been a member of the Netflix ANZ content team for just under 12 months, but his enthusiasm for Australian storytelling goes well beyond that.