Today sees the launch of kutikina Productions, the first-ever Tasmanian Aboriginal screen production company. kutikina is owned and operated by playwright-screenwriter Nathan Maynard and author-screenwriter Adam Thompson.
Screen Australia, NITV and SBS today also announced kutikina’s first development funding – Moonbird is being developed as a 6 x 10-minute Digital Originals series for NITV/SBS On Demand, with funding from Screen Australia, to be co-produced by Rummin Productions. An earlier version of the project received development funding from Screen Tasmania.
