South Australia's Mercury CX reports it will close in the next three months unless it secures $700,000 worth of funding via government or philanthropic means.
Producer Julie Ryan was in post-production for 'Hotel Mumbai' when writer Lisa Hoppe’s script for 'H is for Happiness' came across her desk. She loved it straight away - by page 40, she'd recognised it would make a heartwarming, funny family film.
Screenmakers will have the chance to pitch a short-form scripted or factual concept to ABC creative executives and other industry experts at the Screen Makers Conference in Adelaide in July.
The Screen Makers Conference and ABC iview will once again hold Pitch-o-rama, a live pitch competition in search of the next big web series idea, this July.
“Our stories won’t change until our writers’ room starts reflecting more fully the Australia we live in.”
When it came to putting together Foxtel’s 'The Kettering Incident', co-creator, co-producer and writer Vicki Madden was determined to adopt a showrunner model, despite it not being common practice in Australia.