Australian sci-fi web drama heads to TV

Australian-produced a sci-fi web drama Airlock has been repurposed and will run as a TV movie on the Australian Syfy channel.

The series stars Mark Coles Smith (Last Cab to Darwin) as a security officer investigating events after a derelict spaceship docks with an isolated space station, revealing a dead crew and a band of stowaway refugees.

It was funded by Screen Australia, and produced by Deadhouse Films, the Australian indie producer and distributor created by Enzo Tedeschi.

The indie said it has brought on France-based distributor Rockzeline as the sales agent for Airlock and there is a deal in place with CanalPlay International, and others in the pipeline in Latin and Central America, Europe, Russia and Ukraine.