Amazon Prime Video launched a slate of seven new local originals at a showcase event in Sydney last week, including projects from Made Up Stories, Cate Blanchett's Dirty Films, Matchbox Pictures and Guesswork Television.
Screen Australia has announced $5.6 million of production funding for three feature films and returning seasons of Stan's 'Bump' and 10's 'The Secret She Keeps'.
Bus Stop Films is getting ready to shoot its first feature, 'Baby Cat', and is conducting a nationwide casting call for an actress to play the lead, Sonja, a young woman living with trisomy 21 (Down syndrome).
South Australian First Nations filmmaker Josh Trevorrow has become the second recipient of the Documentary Australia Foundation’s (DAF) Centralised Indigenous Fellowship, allowing further development of his documentary concept Kondoli- Ngarrindjeri whale project (working title).
Through a new partnership with Deutsche Bank, Sydney Film Festival is launching an annual $20,000 fellowship for a First Nations creative.
Curses and demons are typically confined to the realms of fantasy but they have a semi-biographical presence in Toufic Saadeh's upcoming feature, 'The Story of Nadia'.
With an unprecedented level of production going on around the country, local producers are reporting increased difficulty in crewing productions and are facing increased rates.
Screenwriters Justin Olstein and Campbell Banks have been announced as the winners of the Australian Writer Guild's (AWG) 2020 Monte Miller Awards, which recognise unproduced scripts.