Last month Netflix announced it had set up a $US100 million relief fund to support cast and crew who lost their jobs when Netflix-funded productions were shut down or delayed.
Elise McCredie believes that as screenwriters typically work in isolation at home and many have projects in development, the cohort to which she belongs is best placed to ride out the COVI-19 crisis.
The suspension and postponement of numerous screen productions has disrupted directors as much as any industry cohort - but many continue to develop film and TV projects.
Jocelyn Moorhouse was shooting the ABC's 'Stateless' when Jungle Entertainment offered her the gig of set-up director of the ABC drama 'Wakefield'.
"A big theme in this is the body, and our relationships to our bodies - the characters are grappling in different ways with their bodies betraying them."
Netflix has acquired worldwide rights excluding Australia to Stateless, the six-part drama about four strangers whose lives collide in an immigration detention centre in the Australian desert, co-created by Cate Blanchett, Tony Ayres and Elise McCredie.
Stephen Johnson's Aussie Western 'High Ground' will have its world premiere in the Berlinale Special screenings section of the Berlin International Film Festival.
The first two episodes of Matchbox Pictures' 'Stateless' and the second series of Bunya Productions' 'Mystery Road' will have their world premieres at the sixth edition of the Berlin International Film Festival’s Berlinale Series.