The ABC and Tony Ayres Productions' (TAP) anthology drama 'Fires' is underway in Victoria, with a stellar cast that boasts Eliza Scanlen, Sam Worthington, Richard Roxburgh, Sullivan Stapleton, Miranda Otto, Hunter Page-Lochard, Anna Torv, Kate Box, Helana Sawires, Daniel Henshall, and Noni Hazlehurst.
A couple of years ago a friend of filmmaker Tony Ayres gave him a tantalising what if proposition: What if there was a small country town in Victoria where people who had been dead for up to 200 years came back to life?
ABC TV has announced its new four part drama series, Barracuda, starring Rachel Griffiths and Matt Nable, will air on Sunday nights leading up to the 2016 Rio Olympics.
The impact of the devastating bushfires of last summer will be explored in six-part drama 'The Fires', currently in development at the ABC.
After the first episode screens, the whole series will be available on ABC iview.
Production will commence next month in Victoria on 'The Spooky Files', a new children's comedy from the creators of 'Hardball' that is being produced by Tony Ayres Productions and Megaboom Pictures.
As a result of the Director's Attachment Scheme, emerging directors now have the opportunity to work alongside Tony Ayres on his new film Cut Snake.
Australians in Film has welcomed five new board members while announcing the formation of an advisory board to provide guidance across its industry programming.