Writer, producer, and director Taryne Laffar has joined NITV as commissioning editor.
Screen Canberra has announced it put $498,832 towards 10 different projects across the 2022-23 financial year via the CBR Screen Investment Fund, including the third season of ABC/Blackfella Films' 'Total Control', a variety of docs from WildBear Entertainment, and comedy series 'Paranormal Blacktivity' from Yoowarni Productions.
Australian employers now have increased legal obligations to protect the mental wellbeing of employees. IF finds out what that means for the screen industry.
In forcing the film and television industry to explore new ways of working, the pandemic may also have inadvertently exposed the superfluousness of the long days synonymous with production. IF explores change in the air.
Fully integrated entertainment platform Wattpad Webtoon Studios is seeking to grow its Australian presence, with global head of film Lindsey Ramey highlighting the importance of the country's storytellers while attending last week's inaugural Futures Conference in Sydney.
With 'Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning - Part One' opening to a franchise best in Australia, and 'Barbie' and 'Oppenheimer' pre-sales reportedly going gangbusters, the mood among most exhibitors is buoyant.
Western Australian independent production company White Spark Pictures will receive $1 million across three years to develop a slate of new immersive documentaries as part of a partnership between the National Museum of Australia in Canberra, the Western Australian Museum, and the Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum.
To have his short film 'Jia' selected for the Melbourne International Film Festival, in addition to being accepted into the festival's Accelerator Lab, which boasts alumni such as Taika Waititi, David Michod, Justin Kurzel and Sophie Hyde, is a "dream come true" for writer/director Vee Shi.