Stephen McCallum to be the second recipient of the Director's Attachment Scheme.
'The Other Film Festival' presents its program at the UN Headquaters in New York during the United Nations' Sixth Session of the Conference of States PArties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
Despite the ructions in Canberra, the new chief executive of Screen Australia may be announced within a month.
Children's movie Paper Planes, Cambodian-set romantic drama Ruin and art-house drama Partisan received investment from Screen Australia at Tuesday's board meeting.
After 50 years in the film industry, producer Sue Milliken is convinced the current funding structure of government investment and the producer tax offset isn't working.
The quest to find a new CEO to take charge of Screen Australia is in its final stages.
Screen producers are hopeful an incoming Coalition Government will agree to their pleas to lift the producer offset for TV drama from 20% to 40% and to raise the uncompetitive 16.5% location rebate to 30%.
Australian film and video production revenues reached $2.2 billion while the post sector plummeted to $330 million last year, according to a new report.