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New filmmaking teams given a 'Springboard' towards their first feature

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Tuesday 06 December 2011

Screen Australia is pleased to announce the latest intake of participants for the Springboard: Short Film Initiative, designed to help promising filmmaking teams make the final transition from short to feature film.
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Screen Australia investment triggers $97 million in production

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Monday 05 December 2011

Screen Australia has announced almost $17 million investment in a diverse slate of feature films, adult television drama projects and children’s television series. The investment in 14 projects will trigger over $97 million in production.
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Wish You Were Here selected for the opening night of Sundance

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Thursday 01 December 2011

The feature film Wish You Were Here, produced by Angie Fielder, co-written by Kieran Darcy-Smith and Felicity Price and directed by Kieran Darcy-Smith, has been selected for the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.
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Nine in 10 Australians think local screen stories are important

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Wednesday 02 November 2011

Screen Australia today released new findings from a survey revealing 91 per cent of Australians believe it’s important that the country has a local film and television industry that creates Australian stories. Their biggest concern was to ensure that Australian culture isn’t swamped by Hollywood content.
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Screen Australia and StoryLabs announce multiplatform storytelling one-day seminar

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Monday 31 October 2011

Screen Australia and StoryLabs will present world-class digital storytelling talent in a one-day public seminar at the State Library in Melbourne on Tuesday 29 November. Speakers include renowned pioneer Lance Weiler (US) on his first trip to Australia, named by WIRED magazine as ‘one of the 25 people helping to reinvent entertainment and change the face of Hollywood’.
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Eight projects to get multiplatformed at Screen Australia clinic

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Tuesday 25 October 2011

Screen Australia and StoryLabs today announced eight compelling screen projects for the inaugural Digital Ignition Multiplatform Clinic, a week-long workshop designed to support the development of production-ready multiplatform strategies. With the help of world-renowned mentors, participants will lock down the projects' story worlds, business potential, community and audience focus, interactive functionality and technology.
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Strong growth in Australian television drama production

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Monday 24 October 2011

Screen Australia today released its annual Drama Report, revealing a 12 per cent increase in Australian television drama production and the highest level of expenditure by programs for adults in over a decade. This good news is significant in the face of an overall drop in drama production of 33 per cent from last year to a total of $495 million, due to a dip in high-budget feature production.
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All Media Program recipients announced

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Thursday 20 October 2011

Screen Australia today announced the first 12 projects of the inaugural round of the All Media Program incorporating production investment through the All Media Production strand and development support through the Digital Ignition strand.
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Australian documentaries on the world stage at IDFA

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Monday 17 October 2011

Six Australian documentaries have been selected to screen at the 24th International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) and one project has been selected for The FORUM this November.
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Screen Australia supports development of 17 feature projects

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Thursday 13 October 2011

Screen Australia today announced over $500,000 in support for the development of 17 feature films.
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Screen Australia invests in seven new documentaries

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Wednesday 12 October 2011

Screen Australia today announced production investment of $2.4 million in seven documentaries triggering production worth $6.5 million.
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Movie Extra webfest and Screen Australia announce $100,000 production budget

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Monday 10 October 2011

Movie Extra and Screen Australia have joined forces to offer budding filmmakers an extraordinary opportunity to produce a webseries for MOVIE EXTRA WEBFEST with a $100,000 production budget.