With only nine Australian feature docs making more than $100,000 at the box office last year, and none more than $350,000, the future of Australian documentary in cinemas went under the microscope at AIDC.
Production is underway in Europe on a series adaptation of New Zealand author Heather Morris' 2018 Holocaust novel 'The Tattooist of Auschwitz', with Australian scribe Jacquelin Perske on board as lead writer and executive producer.
Australia's creative industries are in shock this morning following the news that long-time Foxtel Group executive Brian Walsh has died.
Alongside a range of Australian and international titles, this year's Gold Coast Film Festival is set to once again spotlight the city's emerging filmmakers, hosting the world premieres of Lauren Ann-Smith's 'Against the Tide', Jude Kalman's 'Red Dust Challenge' and Damian Hussey's 'Girls' Night Out'.
Executives from Paramount, Amazon and the ABC will share their commissioning priorities at Screenworks Regional to Global Screen Forum later this month, alongside those previously announced from Stan, Netflix and SBS.
Australia has representation across six categories for this year's Rockie Awards, held as part of the Banff World Media Festival in June.
Producer Michelle Hardy and director Erin White have been steadily building momentum through their company Hardy White Pictures for the better part of a decade.
'Tár' obliges its audience to sit through three minutes of opening credits. This is a big ask in the age of streaming where audiences embrace the “skip” function, arguably creating invisibility of the creative labour of the screen production, writes UTS's Alex Munt.