Screenworks has confirmed more speakers and sessions for next month's Regional To Global Screen Forum, which will carry a focus on authenticity, diversity and inclusion.
Germany's Leonine Studios has picked up worldwide distribution rights to crime drama 'Troppo', following its premiere on the ABC in February.
Screen Australia would like to see more projects that appeal to the "underserved" audience of 14-35-year-olds and have the potential to resonate internationally, head of content Grainne Brunsdon says.
A slate of 15 television dramas, 11 feature films, and five online series will share in more than $1 million of development funding from Screen Australia.
For writer and director Stef Smith, creating short-form project 'It's Fine, I'm Fine' - about to premiere at Canneseries - was an attempt to get out of what she calls the "credit desert".
That is, it was a bid, for both herself and her fellow collaborators, to obtain the kind of credit that could see them escape the sticky "emerging" label.
Screen Australia has appointed a head of scripted, with former investment and development manager Christopher Sharp stepping into the newly-created role.
First Nations screen creatives in South Australia and the Northern Territory will have the opportunity to learn new skills in immersive storytelling as part of a new workshop launched under the Centralised cross-state initiative.
Aquarius Films is developing a feature film based on journalist Abdul Karim Hekmat's The Monthly article 'True Love in Nauru', about two gay refugees who meet and fall in love while in offshore detention.