Screen Queensland's RIDE (Respect, Inclusion, Diversity and Equality) Feature Film Fund is now a rolling fund, with the agency putting a call out today for pitches from creatives from under-represented groups.
Filming has started in Melbourne on The Warriors, a new eight-part Indigenous comedy drama for the ABC.
"If we can't tell our stories in the way that we want to tell them, as musicians, actors, writers and dancers, then we aren't really telling the story of our country."
The writer-director, who started out as a playwright with 'Belonging' and 'How Blak R U?' in 2002, is among the screen industry’s fast-rising Indigenous storytellers.
Tony Birch's Miles Franklin-shortlisted novel 'The White Girl' is set in the 1960s but the themes of courage, strength and dignity of Indigenous resistance are just as relevant today, according to Damienne Pradier.
Production company Typecast has announced the successful applicants for its inaugural Inspirit Lab initiative, which will see Indigenous filmmakers assemble for a simulated writers room.
Typecast Entertainment has optioned Tara June Winch's novel 'The Yield' for screen adaption.