Sydney is housing production on the second season of 'The PM's Daughter', with shooting now underway throughout the city.
Filmmaker Thomas Atkin has won the Australian Writers’ Guild (AWG)’s John Hinde Award for Excellence in Science-Fiction Writing with dystopian thriller Kin.
More than half of women working across the media industries are dissatisfied or unsure how to advance their careers, and feel that commitment to gender equality is weak.
Screen Australia, SBS and NITV have announced seven projects from this year’s Digital Originals initiative to receive development funding, with three titles from the group to eventually go into production.
Feature films from directors Tony Ayres and Gracie Otto, as well Aunty Donna’s production company Haven’t You Done Well Productions, are among the 33 projects to share in $1 million of story development funding from Screen Australia.
"We made a horror film and it's found this wonderful audience. It's definitely unexpected. And I wouldn't even necessarily say that our film is a straight horror film, but obviously as soon as you squash someone's head, it tends to not really fall in any other genre, no matter what the rest of the movie's about."
Sue Thomson's 'Under Cover' follows the plight of ten women as they find themselves too old to be employed, struck down with illness, unable to get back into the workforce, and dealing with the aftermath of difficult breakups and divorce.
A co-production treaty between Australia and India is a step closer to being finalised after the Indian Government approved the signing of the agreement.