With the new academic year underway, recent graduates share advice for current students and outline their experiences breaking into the screen industry.
The David Lyle Foundation is reintroducing its scholarship program, aimed at helping young executives build TV careers, following a three-year pandemic-related hiatus.
Michael Ebeid will take over as chair of the Screen Australia board, replacing Nicholas Moore.
Archipelago Productions has appointed producer Kristen Hodges as development executive.
Director, actor, and producer Ron Howard is set to take part in next month's Screen Forever alongside long-time producing partner Bill Connor.
The Australian Film Television and Radio School has welcomed filmmaker and writer Tracey Rigney as its second artist-in-residence.
Almost the day after production wrapped on 'Ali's Wedding' in 2016, Osamah Sami pitched Matchbox Pictures his next project, one that would once again see him draw on his experiences as the son of a lead cleric, but was instead a drama that showed his community in "all its realism".
"It was really important to me that if the show was going to be exploring divergent thinking and neurodiversity we have talent and creatives with that lived experience contributing behind the scenes."