Stuart Beattie is attached as showrunner and Phillip Noyce as director to five-part limited series 'The Last Days of Saigon', set during the final days of the Vietnam War.
Baz Luhrmann’s 'Faraway Downs', a six-part series cut from his 2008 film 'Australia', expands the story of English aristocrat Lady Sarah Ashley (Nicole Kidman), who travels halfway across the world to confront her wayward husband and sell an unusual asset: Faraway Downs, a million-acre
cattle ranch in the Australian outback.
Nine writers from across Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, and the ACT will be mentored by the likes of Shaun Grant, Kai Yu Wu, Sarah Lambert, Stuart Beattie, and Stacy Traub as part of this year's Impact Australia accelerator.
Feature films from directors Tony Ayres and Gracie Otto, as well Aunty Donna’s production company Haven’t You Done Well Productions, are among the 33 projects to share in $1 million of story development funding from Screen Australia.
Netflix action film Interceptor follows tough and reality-bruised Captain JJ Collins (Elsa Pataky) as she finds herself in charge of a lone nuclear missile interceptor base in the middle of the Pacific Ocean after being wrongfully drummed out of her dream job at the Pentagon.
The participants for Impact Australia 2 have been revealed, with nine emerging creators to be paired with nine mentors.
Writers and creators of all experience levels have been given an added week to apply for Impact Australia 2, with the deadline extended to June 27.
Impact Australia is inviting applications for the second iteration of its screenwriter accelerator program, which will take place in-person in Melbourne after being held virtually last year.