Filmmaker Sally Aitken and producer Aline Jacques have combined their expertise to officially launch SAM Content, an independent production company based in Sydney.
WildBear Entertainment has entered into a production partnership with UK documentary company Dogwoof to develop, finance, and co-produce a slate of five projects.
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.
The Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC) has revealed the nominees for next month's awards, while announcing screen journalist David Tiley as the winner of the Stanley Hawes Award for 2022.
Production company WildBear Entertainment is among the country's top exporters, taking home this year's Australian Export Award for the creative industries.
Screen Australia has unveiled 13 titles that will share in $3.7 million of production funding, with six documentaries to be supported through the Producer Program and seven projects via the Commissioned Program.
Members of the Australian Directors’ Guild have benefitted from the knowledge that comes with being among the country’s most established filmmakers across the past five months as part of the ADG-40 'First-Hand' sessions.
When Sally Aitken's 'Playing with Sharks' opens in Australian cinemas this week, it will cap a period of significant milestones for production company WildBear Entertainment.