Many screen producers are dismayed that Screen Australia has rejected their case to deny funding for BBC Studios' productions in Australia or to invest in local remakes of international formats.
The Handmaid’s Tale writer/producer Yahlin Chang, Silicon Valley director Jamie Babbit, Grey’s Anatomy executive producer Betsy Beers and comedy writer and EP Peter Saji will serve as the US mentors in the second Mentor LA program.
Ryan Griffen, Greg Waters, Yolanda Ramke and Samantha Lang are among the 16 practitioners who have been selected to travel to LA as part of Screen Australia/the Australian Writers’ Guild's Talent USA contingent.
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.
A family film co-produced by Ridley Scott, a live action/animated children’s anthology and features directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse and first-timers Corrie Chen and Vanessa Gazy have received development funding from Screen Australia.
Damian Hill and Paul Ireland, the creative team behind 2015 indie 'Pawno', have reunited for 'M4M', a contemporary take on the Shakespeare play ‘Measure for Measure’ that will be set within Melbourne’s commission flats.
Jennifer Kent’s thriller 'The Nightingale' will have its world Premiere in competition at the 75th Venice International Film Festival.
Musician, comedian, writer and actor Tim Minchin will lead the cast of Lingo Pictures’ eight-part series 'Upright', a co-commission between Foxtel and Sky UK which will shoot in SA and WA in October.