24 features, five online series and two "high-end" television projects have received development funding.
Indigenous woman Marlene Cummins breaks a 40 year silence to tell the story of her abuse in the Australian Black protest movement in the documentary Black Panther Woman, which premieres on SBS on November 1.
Toni Collette has joined Levi Miller, Aaron McGrath and Angourie Rice on the cast of Rachel Perkins' Australian feature film Jasper Jones.
The winners of the 2015 AFTRS Creative Fellowships are visual artist Del Kathryn Barton, emerging filmmaker Sari Braithwaite and AFTRS alumnus Rachel Perkins.
The first series has only just begun filming but plans are already underway for a second season
The local film cleaned up at the Australian film and TV industry's night of nights
Mabo will begin production later this month