Screen Queensland has announced the commencement of filming for SPIT, the highly anticipated sequel to the award-winning Australian comedy Gettin’ Square. As with the original, the story will mostly centre in and around the Gold Coast, with filming also taking place in Toowoomba and Brisbane through to May 2024. Written by Gold Coast-based writer and…
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SheDoc 2024 Applications
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Documentary Australia in partnership with Screen Queensland have announced applications are now open for SheDoc, a grants program aimed at giving women and girls a stronger and more equal voice in documentary storytelling. “We want to hear more stories to be told by women about women, while at the same time strengthening and elevating the…
In Our Blood Headed to The ABC
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As Australia gets ready to celebrate Sydney WorldPride and Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras, the ABC, Screen Australia and Screen Queensland are proud to announce In Our Blood, a four-part musical drama series inspired by Australia’s radical response to AIDS in the early 1980’s, coming soon to ABC TV and ABC iview. Starring an…
Outback Queensland Town Cloncurry Film Incentive
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On the back of being the spectacular location for Channel 10’s Survivor in 2021, this small Outback Queensland town of some 3,000 people is currently starring in The Bank Manager, a short film about the legendary robbery by Quamby Studios’ Luke and Madeleine Chaplain. Filmmakers, writer, producers and actors, Luke and Madeleine, grew up on…
Production Starts on Bunya Productions’ Limbo
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Production has begun on Bunya Productions’ Limbo ,the latest feature film by Australian auteur Ivan Sen. Featuring AACTA Award-winning, Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated actor, Simon Baker (Breath, The Guardian, The Mentalist, High Ground), with Rob Collins (The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson, Firebite), Natasha Wanganeen (Rabbit Proof Fence, Firebite) and Nicholas Hope (Bad…
Screen Queensland Announces $1 Million Funding For Gaming
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In the lead up to this week’s Gamescom (the globe’s largest digital games conference in Germany) the Queensland Government through Screen Queensland has announced seven digital games projects to be supported with more than $1 million total in development funding. Screen Queensland CEO Kylie Munnich said the sunshine state is emerging as Australia’s most innovative…
Documentaries Commissioned Through Curious Australia Initiative
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SBS, National Indigenous Television (NITV) and Screen Australia have announced a collection of seven standalone half-hour documentaries commissioned through the nationwide Curious Australia initiative. In partnership with state and territory agencies Film Victoria, Screen NSW, Screen Queensland, Screen Tasmania, Screen Territory, Screenwest and the South Australian Film Corporation (SAFC), Curious Australia supports screen practitioners from…
Acorn TV and Screen Australia Announce Darby and Joan
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AMC Networks’ Acorn TV and Screen Australia have announced a new, eight-episode Australian romantic mystery series Darby and Joan from CJZ. Staring Emmy®-nominated and Logie-winning actor Bryan Brown (Bloom) and Emmy-winning actress Greta Scacchi (War & Peace) as two lone strangers trekking on the road – a retired Australian policeman with a dog as his…
Curious Australia Documentary Initiative Launched
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SBS and NITV, in partnership with Screen Australia, and state and Territory agencies, have announced the launch of Curious Australia, a new, nationwide initiative seeking submissions for standalone, half-hour documentaries reflecting the diversity of people and experiences of contemporary Australia. In partnership with Screen Australia, and state and Territory agencies Film Victoria, Screen NSW, Screen…
Troppo Headed to ABC in 2022
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ABC, AGC Television, Screen Australia and Screen Queensland are thrilled to announce that American actor Thomas Jane (The Expanse, Hung) is heading to tropical Queensland to star in the new eight-part crime drama Troppo, based on Candice Fox’s bestselling novel Crimson Lake. Produced by EQ Media Group and Beyond Entertainment, with AGC Television onboard as…