Feature films from directors Tony Ayres and Gracie Otto, as well Aunty Donna’s production company Haven’t You Done Well Productions, are among the 33 projects to share in $1 million of story development funding from Screen Australia.
Screen Australia has announced $2.7 million of production funding, going towards two features, one TV drama, one children's drama and five online projects.
Screen Australia is providing more than $400,000 in story development funding for 16 projects including feature films, television and online series, featuring such talent as Bruna Papandrea, Nick Verso, Priscilla Cameron, Lisa Shaunessy, Anthony Mullins, Kodie Bedford and Tegan Higginbotham.
Stan has followed Netflix in bolstering its drama slate, with the Nine-owned streamer to work with Ludo Studios, Feisty Dame Productions, and Thirdborn on a trio of new series.
Feisty Dame Productions' Tania Chambers and writer-director Nick Verso have optioned 'Invisible Boys', Holden Sheppard's debut novel which follows three 16-year-olds as they come to terms with their homosexuality in a small town in Western Australia.
Warwick Thornton took home the top gong at last night's Australian Directors' Guild Awards for outback Western 'Sweet Country'.
“Toronto audiences first found Christopher Nolan, Lynne Ramsay and Steve McQueen in our Discovery section,†said the Artistic Director of TIFF, Cameron Bailey. “We can't wait to introduce a new generation of vibrant, original voices in cinema."
Tim Draxl, Matt Day, Jada Alberts, Nicholas Brown, Anna McGahan and Oscar Leal lead the ABC's upcoming 'In Our Blood', a four-part musical drama series from Hoodlum Entertainment, inspired by Australia's radical response to AIDS in the early 1980s.