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Picnic At Hanging Rock Sold To Amazon U.S.

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Friday 21 July 2017

Foxtel’s upcoming event drama series Picnic at Hanging Rock is the latest Australian series to be added to the Amazon Prime Video U.S. line-up following a deal with FremantleMedia International.
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11 Hot Shots Plus projects to share in nearly $1 million in funding

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Thursday 20 July 2017

Screen Australia has selected 11 emerging filmmaking teams to share in $989,000 of Hot Shots Plus funding, which will encompass both production funding to make a short-form narrative proof-of-concept (POC), and development funding to progress their POC to a longer form project.
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ABC KIDS and BBC Worldwide partner with award-winning Ludo Studio on new preschool animated series

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Thursday 20 July 2017

Production has started on Bluey, an Australian animated preschool series created by Joe Brumm with the Emmy® award-winning Ludo Studio, co-commissioned by ABC KIDS and BBC Worldwide, with funding support from Screen Australia, in association with Screen Queensland.
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NITV’s new children’s drama series Grace Beside Me in production

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Monday 17 July 2017

Grace Beside Me (working title), a new 13-part children’s television series which will premiere on NITV in 2018, has begun filming in the Scenic Rim in Queensland.
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The Bureau of Magical Things: magical new adventure begins

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Monday 17 July 2017

Jonathan M. Shiff, the internationally renowned Queensland producer who helped launch the careers of dozens of young Australian stars in Hollywood, returns to the Gold Coast with a new children’s television project: The Bureau of Magical Things.
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Australian artists in the spotlight: four new Art Bites projects funded for iview

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Wednesday 12 July 2017

ABC Arts and Screen Australia have selected four projects helmed by emerging director and producer teams – two from South Australia and one each from Queensland and NSW – to receive Art Bites funding, a joint initiative now in its second year.
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Aaron Pedersen and Judy Davis cast in Mystery Road

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Wednesday 12 July 2017

Aaron Pedersen and Judy Davis will star in Mystery Road – The Series, a six part spin-off from Ivan Sen’s internationally acclaimed and award winning feature films Mystery Road and Goldstone. Filming will commence in the East Kimberley region of Western Australia this August.
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New web series capture Torres Strait Island stories on screen

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Thursday 06 July 2017

Two exciting new factual web series from the Torres Strait Islands will be funded as part of Straight out of the Straits, an Australian-first partnership between Screen Queensland, Screen Australia and ABC iview.
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Comedy Central Australia and Screen Australia announce production of Gocsy’s Classics

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Wednesday 05 July 2017

Comedy Central Australia and Screen Australia are proud to announce Gocsy’s Classics, a five- part web series commissioned exclusively for comedycentral.com.au.
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Screen Australia supports four new documentaries for SBS strand Untold Australia

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Tuesday 04 July 2017

Screen Australia will provide production funding for the four documentaries commissioned by SBS for season three of Untold Australia. The documentaries are Mirrabooka from Periscope Pictures, Miss Lebanon from IKandy Films, The Cocos Question from Chemical Media and RARA Rabbis from Unicorn Films.
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NITV's You Are Here: Four compelling documentary films

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Monday 03 July 2017

NITV invites Australians to find their bearings with You Are Here, a series of powerful documentaries premiering from Sunday 23 July at 8.30pm on NITV and SBS.
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Refreshed Enterprise funding guidelines released and applications now open

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Wednesday 28 June 2017

Today Screen Australia launched the new guidelines for the Enterprise Program, which has been redesigned to offer broader opportunities for the development of practitioners and companies. This iteration of the program will ensure maximum flexibility in addressing a wide range of possibilities and challenges within the screen industry.