After 10 years as a professional screenwriter, D.J. McPherson's career has reached a sweet spot, with a hot-shot Hollywood producer attached to her first feature and a streaming platform backing her 10-part drama.
Victorian-based writer D.J. McPherson has won the Truant Pictures screenplay competition with her project 'His Name Is Jeremiah'.
Growing up in the Beagle Bay and Broome regions of the Kimberley in Western Australia, Jub Clerc was regaled with stories of the spirit of a woman that lived in the mangroves and stole children.
Together, the two companies will form a global creative production team and animation studio that will produce Netflix animated film titles.
A spin-off of 'High Maintenance', starring Yael Stone, and a comedic crime series from Jungle Entertainment are among the 21 projects that will share in more than $600,000 in story development funding from Screen Australia.
Toni Collette's directorial debut, an animated series based on 'The Sapphires' and a Shakespeare-inspired anthology are among the 42 projects to recently share in $1.4 million of development funding from Screen Australia.
The second iteration of Screenworks and Australians In Film (AiF)'s Regional Screen in LA Program will take the form of an internship with Animal Logic Entertainment (ALE), offering upcoming or recent grads from regional Australia an opportunity to work out of ALE's LA office.