Television
News In Brief: Amazon's new Australian Originals and fresh opportunities for diverse writers
This week in the news: The Yield optioned by Tony Briggs, Amazon funds 7 new local productions, Screen Aus portions…
ABC ME and Screen Australia reveal projects from diverse filmmakers for The Kaleidoscope Project
Four projects from culturally diverse filmmakers have been selected for The Kaleidoscope Project, enabling them to create films about diverse…
First Nations filmmaker Josh Trevorrow receives Documentary Australia Foundation Fellowship
South Australian filmmaker Josh Trevorrow, a Ngarrindjeri man, has been awarded the 2021 Documentary Australia Foundation’s (DAF) Centralised Indigenous Fellowship.
Screen study that prepares you for a changing industry
As her field expands rapidly, multimedia producer Sarah Hill has used her AFTRS qualification as a tool to create her…
The Sapphires' Tony Briggs options Miles Franklin winning novel 'The Yield'
Tara June Winch's The Yield is complex, crackling with words, a meditation on the power of Indigenous language. Tony Briggs…
Mental Health Watch: This Way Up, Couples Therapy and Wakefield
May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and there's no shortage of TV characters who struggle, fall and rise again. Here…
Shana Levine snapped up by Elevate Production Finance... but who are they?
Industry lawyer, producer and former senior Screen Australia manager Shana Levine is now Head of Production Investment at Elevate Production…
Exhibition Review: Disney: The Magic of Animation, ACMI
The House of Mouse takes over ACMI so we sent cartoonist Andrew Weldon along to see how it captures the…
Disney and ACMI bring the magic back to winter
ACMI's first major exhibition since reopening is a crowd-pleasing blend of history, art and technology, says CEO Katrina Sedgwick about…
Amazon Prime Video greenlights seven new Australian productions
Amazon Prime Video had added seven new Australian Amazon Original productions to its slate. This brings the production company’s local…