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Screen Australia
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See-Saw & Samantha Strauss’s Picking Scabs prodco hires Screen Australia head of production
Slow Horses producer See-Saw Films and Samantha Strauss’s joint venture prodco, Picking Scabs, has expanded…
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Screen Australia appoints Screen NSW boss as content chief, following Sally Caplan exit
Australian government funding body Screen Australia has appointed Grainne Brunsdon as head of content, following…
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Screen Australia alum Richard Harris to head Minderoo’s new $7.5m fund
Former Screen Australia executive Richard Harris has been appointed to head up a new A$10m…
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Australian gov’t injects $34m to support screen production
The Australian screen industry is to be given a A$34m ($50m) funding injection to support…
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Australian screen industry releases Covid-19 guidelines to aid return to work
The Australian screen production industry has released a set of “Covid-safe guidelines” to help get…
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Foreign production boosts Australian drama spend to 29-year high
Record levels of foreign production in Australia have helped shatter national records around drama production,…
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Keshet, ABC team for political drama Black B*tch
Keshet International (KI) has partnered with Australia’s ABC and Screen Australia to bring Blackfella Films’…
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SVOD net Acorn coproducing comedy original with ABC
Subscription VOD service Acorn TV is pushing deeper into original programming through the coproduction of…
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Aussie drama spend passes $1.3bn but kids suffer
Australia saw its scripted production spend hit A$1.3 billion (US$1 billion) for the first time,…
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ABC Kids & BBCWW partner for animated series
ABC Kids and BBC Worldwide (BBCWW) have partnered with Ludo Studio on a new preschool…