News room

Media Enquiries

Scott Dawkins (02) 8113 5886

Subscribe

eNews Media Releases

Featured

Screen Australia funds four new Hot Shots teams

Industry news

Wednesday 24 August 2016

Screen Australia is pleased to announce the four successful projects from our Hot Shots Short Film Fund. Susan Earl’s Deep Storage, Sanjay De Silva’s Lions and Tigers and Steve Pasvolsky’s Apple will all receive live action production funding, whilst Andrew Lee’s Melon Grab will receive post-production completion funds.
Featured

ABS production industry survey underway

Industry news

Wednesday 24 August 2016

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) is once again surveying the screen production sector.
Featured

Female producer and director team receive funding to make landmark documentary about child removal

Industry news

Friday 19 August 2016

Screen Australia and the Adelaide Film Festival, in collaboration with KOJO and the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA), have announced that Larissa Behrendt and Michaela Perske are the recipients of the Indigenous Feature Documentary Initiative for their feature documentary project, After the Apology.
Featured

Applications open for Content London 2016

Industry news

Monday 15 August 2016

Screen Australia is delighted to announce that we’re supporting up to 10 Australian content creators to participate in Content London 2016, including C21’s International Drama Summit, which has established itself as a significant drama business event.
Featured

Screen Australia updates Documentary Program Guidelines

Industry news

Monday 01 August 2016

From 1 August 2016, Screen Australia will introduce a number of changes to the Documentary funding programs which are summarised here.
Featured

Cleverman series 2: Call-out for Indigenous talent

Industry news

Thursday 28 July 2016

The highly anticipated second series of the ABC hit Cleverman is going into production soon and Screen Australia’s Indigenous Department, Goalpost Pictures and Screen NSW are looking for new and emerging Indigenous screen practitioners for six internships.
Featured

Dirty secrets, Middle Aged Men in Lycra, street art, sacred songs and kidnapping: Screen Australia announces more than $2.54 million for documentary projects

Industry news

Wednesday 27 July 2016

Screen Australia has today announced the ten unique documentaries that will share in more than $2.54 million in funding from Screen Australia’s Documentary Producer Program and the Documentary Broadcast program.
Featured

Bold, groundbreaking proposals sought

Industry news

Wednesday 13 July 2016

In what represents the final year in the current three-year iteration of the Enterprise program, we have committed up to $2.4 million across the Enterprise Industry and Enterprise People strands for 2016 applicants.
Featured

Producer Offset fees and forms changes

Industry news

Wednesday 13 July 2016

The provisional certificate application fee has gone up and we’ve updated our Producer Offset application forms.
Featured

Busan selector to visit Australia in July

Industry news

Wednesday 29 June 2016

Next month we’ll host Busan International Film Festival programmer, Dosin Pak to view new Australian films for festival preselection. Dosin will view narrative feature films for the festival’s World Cinema, Flash Forward and Midnight Passion sections.
Featured

Want a Venice premiere?

Industry news

Wednesday 25 May 2016

We will host Venice International Film Festival programming correspondent Paolo Bertolin in June to view upcoming Australian films that are eligible for festival preselection.
Featured

Jetpacks, oysters and ancient Songlines: Screen Australia announces more than $1.8 million for the new round of Documentary Producer funding

Industry news

Friday 13 May 2016

Scientific innovation, the 1987 World Motorcycle Grand Prix, ancient songlines and the world’s first jetpack are just some of the topics explored by seven documentary teams sharing in more than $1.8 million from Screen Australia’s Documentary Producer Program.