Travis Fimmel, Simon Baker, Phoebe Tonkin, Bryan Brown, and Anthony La Paglia will bring Trent Dalton's 'Boy Swallows Universe' to life for Netflix, with production on the eight-part series now underway in Brisbane.
New seasons of 'Total Control' and children's titles 'Rock Island Mysteries' and 'Strange Chores', as well as feature film projects from Northern Pictures, Made Up Stories and Causeway Films are among the nine projects that will share in $12 million of production funding from Screen Australia.
Screen Queensland will support seven games projects from the state with more than $1 million in development funding while also helping nine studios attend this week's Gamescom digital games conference in Cologne, Germany.
Production is underway in the South Australian mining town of Coober Pedy on a neo-western whodunnit from auteur Ivan Sen, starring Simon Baker, Rob Collins, Natasha Wanganeen, and Nicholas Hope.
Subjects ranging from the Australian Open tennis tournament to the country's LGBTQI+ history will be explored in the latest round of documentary projects to receive production funding from Screen Australia.
Young adult feature 'The Curious Case of Dolphin Bay' follows 15-year-old Quinn Perkins (Izabela Rose), who is excited to be spending the summer interning with her best friend Daniela (Ella Proberts) and marine biologist father Charlie (Rowan Chapman).
A bumper line-up of Australian talent, including Jillian Nguyen, Sam Neill, and Anna Torv, will lend their voices to upcoming animated feature film, 'Scarygirl', which is in production in Queensland.
US-based filmmaker Rita Baghdadi and actor, screenwriter, and producer Aaron Fa’Aoso will appear at next month's Regionality Cairns, with the full program for documentary and factual industry event unveiled this week.