Media Funds Management has announced the first successful independent funding of the Australian Producers Offset for the motion picture Prime Mover.
Film producer Vincent Sheehan has joined the Australian Film Television and Radio School to head its production department
Hollywood actor Willem Dafoe is set to star in psychological thriller The Hunter
Foxtel today announced the commissioning of a major new Australian drama series The Kettering Incident, from producers Porchlight Films and Sweet Potato Films.
'The Kettering Incident' took out Best Miniseries at Wednesday's AACTA awards, while star Elizabeth Debicki won Best Lead Actress in a TV Drama.
When it came to putting together Foxtel’s 'The Kettering Incident', co-creator, co-producer and writer Vicki Madden was determined to adopt a showrunner model, despite it not being common practice in Australia.
George Mackay is set to play Ned Kelly in Justin Kurzel's 'True History of the Kelly Gang', starring alongside Russell Crowe, Nicholas Hoult and Essie Davis.
Production is about to begin on Porchlight Films' 'Fallout' (working title) for the ABC, a six-part drama inspired by the 1950s British nuclear testing that took place in outback South Australia. Written and directed by Peter Duncan (Rake), the project has attracted a strong cast including Ewen Leslie, Jessica de Gouw, James Cromwell, Ningali Lawford Wolf and Shaka Cook.