Film Victoria has announced $2 million in production funding across 11 film, television and online projects, including Matchbox Pictures' upcoming SBS series 'Hungry Ghosts'.
Leading US writer/producer Anne Kenney has agreed to executive produce and co-write Ruby Entertainment’s historical miniseries 'The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka'.
Unless Pictures' Meg O'Connell (Bluey) and Ruby Entertainment's Stephen Luby (Kath and Kim) have been added to the lineup of Screen Canberra's Screen POD program, set to begin next month.
Mr Selfridge's Oliver Jackson-Cohen and Predestination's Sarah Snook head the cast of The Secret River, an ABC miniseries adapted from the Kate Grenville novel which starts shooting in Victoria on Monday.
Documentaries examining the aftermath of the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires, Australia’s frontier conflicts and race and identity through the prism of former AFL star Adam Goodes are being funded by Screen Australia in one of the final funding rounds overseen by Liz Stevens.
Producing a TV drama series in a third world country can be a hazardous undertaking- particularly when Molotov cocktails are detonated in the city nearly every night.
Mark Ruse, who was partnered with Stephen Luby in Ruby Entertainment for 20 years, died unexpectedly on Saturday. He was 64.
When Daina Reid was offered the chance to direct The Secret River, the ABC miniseries based on Kate Grenville’s novel, she found the subject confronting.