‘Relic’. (Photo: Ben King) Natalie Erika James’ debut feature Relic, which made its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival...
Screen Australia CEO Graeme Mason has flagged an increase in development investment from next month in order to help the industry weather the coronavirus crisis, and the agency is looking at how it can enhance other industry support measures.
The sixth iteration of Screen Australia and Google's Skip Ahead initiative, designed to help YouTube creators up the scale of their content, has opened for applications today.
"At Screen Australia, we are focusing on ensuring funding continues to be injected into the sector as normal, and we will be ready to adapt when the sector moves into recovery mode."
Screen Australia today announced $2 million of production funding for eight documentaries through the Producer program and two through the Commissioned program.
The emerging crisis around local content results from repeated inaction by government to develop 21st century policy frameworks, write University of the Sunshine Coast's Anna Potter and Queensland University of Technology's Amanda Lotz. Here, they recommend three ways government can encourage local production and break the policy inertia
'At The Coalface', 'This Is Reality' and 'Give Us Green, Darling!' are the three winners of the Screen Australia and Al Jazeera English Witness pitching competition, held at the Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC) in Melbourne earlier this week.
The organisers of MIPTV have cancelled the market that was due to be held in Cannes from March 30-April 2 and allied events including Canneseries, Mip Formats and Mip Doc.