Screen Producers Australia has released the full program for this year's Screen Forever conference, shaping its schedule around the strands of Story and Vision, Shifting the Status Quo and Markets, and Trends & Finance.
The launch project for Tasmanian Aboriginal screen production company kutikina Productions and a new production from Jub Clerc and Jodie Bell are among the Digital Originals to be selected for further development funding.
Executives from Paramount, Amazon and the ABC will share their commissioning priorities at Screenworks Regional to Global Screen Forum later this month, alongside those previously announced from Stan, Netflix and SBS.
Northern Pictures' documentary series 'Asking for It', an exploration of consent, will premiere on SBS next month.
New seasons of NITV's 'Our Law' and ABC's 'War on Waste', as well as feature documentaries on the Australian Boomers basketball team and women's Tour de France, are among 21 titles to share in $4.6 million of production funding from Screen Australia.
SBS short-form series 'Latecomers' is off to France as the only Australian project selected for this year's Series Mania.
Finding stories with heart and humour from fresh voices will be a key commissioning focus for Australia's public broadcasters in 2023 as they seek to emphasise their point of difference in an evolving marketplace.
Cross-platform creator Vidya Rajan speaks to IF about what she will be working on for the coming year.