Michael Tear and Tania Chambers replace Chris Oliver-Taylor and Ben Grant as President and VP.
Wilson will be responsible for the organisation’s fundraising and stakeholder engagement activities.
The slate includes over 20 new Australian shows, in addition to new seasons for established titles such as You Can't Ask That, Cleverman, Janet King and The Doctor Blake Mysteries.
The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) continues its push into VR, with new commissions 'Ghost, Toast and the Things Unsaid' and 'Into the Prehistoric Aquarium' joining previous VR project 'Stuck in the Middle With You.'
The Solid State has once again teamed up with the Smith Family on Tales of the One in Ten – a series of short animated projects that tell the real-life stories of children living in disadvantage.
The 2016 AACTA nominations were announced last week to the usual gamut of responses ranging from delight to disappointment and dismay. This year the absence of women nominees in a number of categories has been especially singled out for attention.
Aussie visual effects and animation company Illoura is behind many of the action sequences in Deepwater Horizon, brought on to add realism with digital mud, fire and smoke.
Writer and former president of both the Australian Writers’ Guild and Australian Writers’ Foundation, Geoffrey Atherden, has been appointed a director of Screenrights.