See-Saw Films has upped Simon Gillis to chief operating officer across both film and television as the company grows its business affairs and production teams.
Australian feature films are currently dominating the box office, with exhibitors reporting a "revitalised" audience appetite for local stories. However, both producers and distributors have concerns about being able to actually get Aussie features off the ground in the future, with the Producer Offset slated to fall from 40 to 30 per cent from July.
Australians in Film has partnered with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and Screen Australia to launch Untapped, a breakthrough talent development program for undiscovered and underrepresented filmmakers.
See-Saw Films' dark comedy 'The End', created and written by Samantha Strauss and directed by Jessica M. Thompson and Jonathan Brough, follows three generations of a family living with separate but intersecting obsessions - how to die with dignity, live with none, and make it all count.
Belying fears that Foxtel would cut back on local commissions following the Federal Government's media reforms, the pay TV platform expects to have three Australian dramas in production next year.
Following on from their collaboration on Foxtel/Sky UK's 'The End', writer and producer Samantha Strauss and See-Saw Films have formed a joint venture in production company Picking Scabs.
Joel Edgerton has spent most of his time in lockdown writing feature films, while rethinking where and how these productions can be shot in the post COVID-19 era.
Garth Davis is attached to direct a reboot of Disney's 'Tron' franchise, starring Jared Leto.