While production shutdowns are causing mass unemployment among all sectors of the screen sector, some practitioners see an upside.
"The best way to get people to go to the cinema is to embrace the point of difference from television, enhance the cinematic scale of the work and create narrative experiences that are immersive." - Robert Connolly
Rosie Lourde is making her feature film directing debut on 'Romance on the Menu', a romantic comedy from the Steve Jaggi Company now shooting in Brisbane.
American actress Peyton List, who starred in the Disney Channel series 'Jessie' and the spin-off 'Bunk’d', is playing the protagonist in young adult feature film 'Swimming for Gold'.
Screen composer Angela Little is pursuing her career in Hollywood after completing her Master of Music in Screen Scoring at the University of Southern California while continuing to work on Australian productions.
Polly Staniford, Sarah Shaw, Tania Chambers, Kristian Moliere, Liz Watts and Vincent Sheehan are among a delegation of 13 film and television producers who will travel to Los Angeles to meet with more than 30 development companies and streaming services next month.
Eleven years since the introduction of the Producer Offset, Screen Australia has expressed concern about an increase in applications for feature films that have unreasonably high fees.
Sofia Wylie, the teenage star of the Disney Channel series Andi Mack, will make her feature film debut in Australian young-adult drama Back of the Net.