'Muriel's Wedding The Musical' lead Natalie Abbott will star opposite Erik Thomson in ABC/Closer Productions' comedy 'Aftertaste', which has just started shooting in Adelaide and Adelaide Hills following COVID-19 delays.
Closer Productions is aiming to expand its reach well beyond South Australia in the next couple of years, having secured Enterprise funding from Screen Australia and welcomed former SAFC CEO Richard Harris as executive producer.
Shooting has kicked off this week in on 'F*cking Adelaide', a six-part comedy drama series for ABC iview starring Tilda Cobham-Hervey.
Closer Productions' Aftertaste will soon be served up on Acorn TV after ABC Commercial sold the scripted comedy to the US streamer.
Ed Punchard, John Hughes, Jenni Tosi, Dan Read, Rebecca Summerton, Tracey Vieira and Suzanne Ryan will join the Screen Producers Australia (SPA) council for 2019-2020.
A film tracking the 30-year journey of children's band The Wiggles and another celebrating the life of late music executive Michael Gudinski are among the nine projects to share in more than $2.7 million of documentary funding from Screen Australia.
Wayne Blair and Nel Minchin's 'Firestarter - The Story of Bangarra' has won Adelaide Film Festival's documentary competition, pocketing a $10,000 cash prize.
South Australia creative Ansuya Nathan is looking to hit the ground running following the completion of her SBS Emerging Writers' Incubator placement with Closer Productions.