Screen Australia backs projects from Nakkiah Lui, Roache-Turner brothers
Nakkiah Lui, Sarah Kern and Tai Hara.
Screen Australia today announced $2.7 million of production funding, going towards two features, one TV drama, one children’s drama and five online projects. ...
Wide has come on board to represent international sales on Slovenian-Australian writer/director Sara Kern’s debut feature “Moja Vesna,” which premieres in the Generation Kplus section at the Berlin ...
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 ...
Film revolves around woman from either side of the Middle East conflict who come together at a filmmaking workshop.
Paris-based Memento International has acquired world sales rights to Israeli ...
Sweetshop & Green will receive $50,000 to further its New Zealand production slate after being announced as the recipient of the New Zealand Film Commission’s He Ara Development Fund for 2021. ...
Filming is underway in Melbourne on writer-director Sara Kern’s debut feature Moja Vesna, in what is the first-ever Slovenian-Australian co-production.
The story follows ten-year-old Mona who, after ...
The Key Buyers Event: Digital, a film and TV market held in Russia, will return for a third edition in 2021. The event showcases new audiovisual content from the country and highlights emerging ...
Sweetshop & Green has promoted Ester Harding to head of drama, and appointed former Aidc CEO and conference director Alice Burgin as a documentary and factual executive.
Harding joined Sweetshop & ...
Screen Australia has announced nearly $2 million of production funding for two documentaries through the Commissioned program and eight through the Producer Program.
The projects include series Could ...
Sweetshop & Green is set to make a foray into children’s television, with the production company to partner with Israel’s Ananey Communications and Pil Animation Studio on new series Living With ...
Exclusive: NewFilmmakers Los Angeles and the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Science (AMPAS) will kick off the New Year celebrating emerging Israeli filmmakers and talent with a virtual film fest. ...
Behrouz Boochani (R) (Photo credit: David Collins).
Director Rodd Rathjen showed his mettle in his debut feature, human trafficking saga Buoyancy, so he is an obvious choice to direct an asylum ...
Story based on experiences of Kurdish-Iranian journalist Behrouz Boochani on Australia’s notorious Manus Island asylum seeker camp.
Australian director Rodd Rathjen has signed to direct the upcoming ...
Roster of participants includes 44 female producers out of 73 in total.
The latest projects from producers of French Exit and The Babadook are among the roster at the virtual 15th Ontario Creates ...
MTV Launches BLM Shorts
MTV International is today launching a short-form series to support the Black Lives Matter movement, featuring the likes of Little Mix star Leigh-Anne Pinnock. Pinnock and ...
Toni Collette.
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 ...
Ester Harding.
Ester Harding is set to join Sweetshop & Green’s entertainment division as a development executive, working across its Australian and New Zealand operations.
Harding joins from Screen ...