Fifteen project teams spanning nine nations will take part in The FACTory international pitching showcase at this year’s AIDC.
Two narrative projects and two documentaries will share in $70,000 of production funding via AFTRS National Talent Camp.
Kauthar Abdulalim's 'Salma's Season', a 6 x 5-minute comedy-drama series about a 45-year-old Australian-Pakistani woman's dream to reach the Australian Open is now available to view on YouTube.
Some 11 short documentaries about climate and environmental solutions will screen on the ABC next year after being backed via the Your Planet initiative.
Mike Greaney's online anthology The Future of Everything features the stories of a forty-something guy named Keith who’s determined to fight God, a Government-funded resort built to encourage intergalactic tourism, and internet-radicalised ducks at war with socialist seagulls.
Eight early to mid-career Victorian screenwriters will hone their craft under the tutelage of script producer and former ABC development executive Clare Atkins as part of Co-Curious's Stories From Another Australia initiative.
With a second crop of creatives set to start the SBS Emerging Writers' Incubator in the new year, inaugural participant Alberto Di Troia has encouraged them to speak up with ideas, no matter who they were in the room with.
Netflix, ABC, SBS and Paramount ANZ are among the 16 seed funders and founding members of Sustainable Screens Australia, a new initiative which will provide education, tools and resources to measure and reduce the industry’s environmental impact.