The participants for Impact Australia 2 have been revealed, with nine emerging creators to be paired with nine mentors.
Nine writers from across Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, and the ACT will be mentored by the likes of Shaun Grant, Kai Yu Wu, Sarah Lambert, Stuart Beattie, and Stacy Traub as part of this year's Impact Australia accelerator.
Writers and creators of all experience levels have been given an added week to apply for Impact Australia 2, with the deadline extended to June 27.
Imagine Impact, the content accelerator program created by Imagine Entertainment's Brian Grazer, Ron Howard and Tyler Mitchell, is heading to Australia.
Faraway Films Entertainment's Lynda Heys and Steve Turnbull are heading to LA this weekend to take meetings for their feature film 'The Road Less Traveled', which they developed last year via Imagine Entertainment's Impact program.
In 1961 New Zealand couple Beth and Ivan Hodge set off in their newly acquired VW Beetle on an extended honeymoon, driving from London to Calcutta.
Together, the two companies will form a global creative production team and animation studio that will produce Netflix animated film titles.
Imagine Entertainment co-founder Ron Howard will direct 'The Shrinking of Treehorn', the first of four live-action animated co-productions between his company and Animal Logic Entertainment.