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Milestone study of diversity on television released

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Wednesday 24 August 2016

Screen Australia has released the most significant study of diversity on Australian screens since television began in 1956, entitled Seeing Ourselves: Reflections on Diversity in TV Drama.
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Australian talent on show at the Toronto International Film Festival

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Wednesday 24 August 2016

The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) made further 2016 program announcements overnight, revealing two new Australian film selections joining an already impressive line-up.
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Tanna is Australia's submission for Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards®

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Tuesday 23 August 2016

Just ahead of its U.S. theatrical release, Screen Australia-supported feature Tanna has been endorsed as Australia’s official submission for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 2017 Academy Awards®. The film will compete with the other entrants from around the world to be shortlisted for nomination.
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Screen Australia’s Indigenous Department supports 10 Indigenous attachments on Thor: Ragnarok and Alien: Covenant

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Monday 01 August 2016

Screen Australia’s Indigenous Department has confirmed the eight attachments on Marvel’s Thor: Ragnarok from director Taika Waititi at Village Roadshow Studios on the Gold Coast, as well as the further two attachments on Ridley Scott’s latest film, Alien: Covenant at Fox Studios in Sydney.
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Gender Matters: Final stages revealed

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Friday 29 July 2016

Screen Australia CEO Graeme Mason unveiled the final two steps of the agency’s Gender Matters program, Better Deals and Attachments for Women, at the MIFF 37°South Market in Melbourne. Gender Matters is the $5 million plan to ensure that production funding is targeted to creative teams that are at least 50% female by the end of 2018. Gender Matters is an ambitious initiative that aims to address the gender imbalance in Australia’s screen sector.
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Screen Australia congratulates the three Australian feature films selected for Venice

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Friday 29 July 2016

Screen Australia is today celebrating the three feature films that have been selected to appear at the Venice Film Festival and at Venice Days. Hacksaw Ridge, Boys in the Trees and Hounds of Love were all announced overnight as part of the selection for the festival that begins on August 31.
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Gender Matters: Record-breaking funding for women to be seen and heard

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Tuesday 12 July 2016

The Australian Government has today revealed the 58 recipients of Screen Australia’s Gender Matters: Brilliant Stories and Brilliant Careers, marking the largest cohort of projects funded in a single day in the agency’s history.
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Screen Australia and ABC deliver $1.5m for five new diverse and digital-first scripted series

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Wednesday 22 June 2016

Screen Australia and ABC are pleased to announce the five successful projects for the Long Story Short initiative. Each project will receive funding to create and produce a short-form, digital-first scripted series for audiences aged 18-35 to screen on ABC iview.
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Two female Australian directors to join Ridley Scott on Alien: Covenant

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Friday 13 May 2016

Screen Australia and the Australian Directors Guild (ADG) today announced that Brooke Goldfinch and Catriona McKenzie have been chosen as the director’s attachments on Sir Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant.
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Screen Australia congratulates the 58th TV WEEK Logie Awards winners and nominees

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Monday 09 May 2016

Australia’s television talent gathered in Melbourne last night to celebrate the 58th TV WEEK Logie Awards. Known as ‘television’s night of nights,’ the evening did not disappoint as eight Screen Australia supported titles took home awards, while crowd favourite Waleed Aly won the Silver Logie before he was presented with the coveted Gold Logie.
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Screen Australia partners with Twitter on four new Australian TV dramas

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Wednesday 20 April 2016

Screen Australia and Twitter are proud to announce a new partnership designed to help Australian TV dramas develop deeper engagement with and between online audiences. ABC3’s new drama Tomorrow When the War Began, based on John Marsden’s iconic books, is the first of four local TV dramas that will be produced as part of the partnership over the next 12 months.
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Call out for the next generation of great YouTube talent as Screen Australia and Google help filmmakers Skip Ahead with a pool of $750,000

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Monday 18 April 2016

Screen Australia and Google are back with the third instalment of Skip Ahead, the program that helps new generations of online storytellers expand their vision and the scale of the content they create on YouTube. With past Skip Ahead alumnae including Aunty Donna (103,489 subscribers • 12,202,848 views), SketchShe (763,971 subscribers • 85,634,620 views), Mighty Car Mods (1,816,456 subscribers • 244,207,055 views) and Axis of Awesome (288,469 subscribers • 46,005,519 views), the program is also a step in building sustainable screen careers.