The ABC has ordered a six-part narrative comedy from Unless Pictures and Orange Entertainment centred on COVID-19 isolation, due to start filming - remotely - this month before airing in July.
Screen Queensland has announced 11 companies to share in just under $1 million in funding, designed to help their businesses pivot and diversify through the pandemic.
Kurt Royan and Dan Lake's Orange Entertainment Co. has bought the screen rights to Shannon Molloy’s autobiographical book 'Fourteen', which chronicles one year of his life as a gay teenager in regional Queensland.
Screen Queensland has partnered with Unless Pictures to launch RIDE Shorts, which will support up to six early to mid-career creative teams to create short films to premiere at the Brisbane International Film Festival (BIFF).
Unless Pictures' Meg O'Connell (Bluey) and Ruby Entertainment's Stephen Luby (Kath and Kim) have been added to the lineup of Screen Canberra's Screen POD program, set to begin next month.
Producer Hayley Adams has joined the Unless Pictures team as the company ramps up its short-form content slate, while Sanja Simić also joins as a development producer.
A slate of 15 television dramas, 11 feature films, and five online series will share in more than $1 million of development funding from Screen Australia.
Writer and actor Hannah Belanszky will join Unless Pictures as the company's playwright in residence over the next 12 months.