After six and half years, Screen Australia head of Indigenous Penny Smallacombe will depart the agency.
Rachel Perkins has been spending lockdown working on the scripts for 'First Wars' and wrestling with the questions she will address in the three-part SBS docudrama about Australia's frontier wars.
Rarriwuy Hick leads the ensemble cast of Bunya Productions' drama 'True Colours' (formerly 'Copping It Black'), now shooting in the Macdonnell Ranges, Northern Territory, for SBS and NITV.
Screen Australia and the New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC) have today announced eight Indigenous teams from Australia and New Zealand who will work on a joint anthology feature, 'Cook 2020: Our Right of Reply', which will be titled 'Ngā Pouwhenua' in NZ.
Screen Australia has announced $2.7 million of production funding, going towards two features, one TV drama, one children's drama and five online projects.
Screen Australia’s Indigenous department is contributing $745,000 in production funding to four documentary projects including two for NITV and one for the ABC.
The Australian screen industry is on the "precipice of change" in giving more and long overdue recognition to Indigenous people and People of Colour creatives and stories, according to Penny Smallacombe.
As Screen Australia’s Indigenous department celebrates its 25th anniversary, it has announced $1.5 million in special funding across short films, web series and documentaries, in addition to business support.