Fin Edquist is perhaps best known for animated adventures aimed at children and families - but the screenwriter finds equal satisfaction in creating adult-themed dramas.
Alana Hicks, Grace Feng and Llewellyn Michael Bates will each receive $24,000 to produce a short work thanks to Talent Camp, a joint initiative of AFTRS, Screen Australia and the state screen agencies to bolster emerging talent from diverse backgrounds.
First Nations writers Shontell Ketchell, Brooke Collard, Rachel Chisholm, Samuel Nuggin-Paynter and Boyd Quakawoot have been selected by Screenworks and Tamarind Tree Pictures to help develop 'Yellow Water Billabong', an animated children’s series created by writer/producer Danielle MacLean.
After a decade gestation, director Stephen Johnson’s frontier Western 'High Ground' is scheduled to shoot next year in Arnhem Land and Kakadu National Park.
The participants for Impact Australia 2 have been revealed, with nine emerging creators to be paired with nine mentors.
With 'MaveriX', 'True Colours', 'Barrumbi Kids', 'Matt Wright's Wild Territory', 'Outback Ringer' season 2, 'The First Inventors' and 'The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart', the 2021-22 financial year proved the biggest year of production yet for the Northern Territory.
Some 11 short documentaries about climate and environmental solutions will screen on the ABC next year after being backed via the Your Planet initiative.
Screentime will produce 'Pine Gap', a six-part political thriller set in and around the US/Australian spy satellite base in the Northern Territory for the ABC and Netflix.