For someone who for years had no aspirations to become a filmmaker, Fadia Abboud’s career has rocketed.
The long journey to adapt Australian author Melina Marchetta’s 2006 young adult novel 'On the Jellicoe Road' into a TV series looks like paying off.
'The Secret She Keeps' and 'Wentworth' scribe Sarah Walker is set to write and executive produce crime thriller series The Last House Guest for Elle and Dakota Fanning's newly-formed production company, Lewellen Pictures.
Nearly 30 projects will share in $975,000 of story development funding from Screen Australia, including a television series inspired by the 1999 film 'Two Hands' from director Gregor Jordan, and a family feature film from the producers of 'Bluey'.
Sam Neill will return to Australian drama for the first time in more than a decade as part of Foxtel crime drama The Twelve, which begins production next week.
Brendan Cowell, Pallavi Sharda, Ngali Shaw, Catherine Van-Davies, Bishanyia Vincent and Damien Strouthos will star as jurors in Foxtel's courtroom drama 'The Twelve'.
Three projects from Australian filmmaking teams have been selected for the second edition of global film incubator Attagirl, which supports women and non-binary filmmakers.
When COVID hit, Sarah Walker and Danielle Cormack wanted to find a contained, achievable project to develop together to keep themselves busy. They settled on a "fantastically queer", contemporary riff on 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'.