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Screenrights’ 2023 Cultural Fund Opens

Screenrights’ 2023 Cultural Fund opened recently for applications, with up to $250,000 in funding available for projects that respond to the annual focus of New Visions.“New Visions aim to let us see something differently. Perhaps it’s a reimagining of creative processes, an innovative way to connect with audiences, or a project which destroys stereotypes –…

The Children In The Pictures Docu-Series Podcast

The Children In The Pictures is a LiSTNR and DNX Media new original docu-series podcast that follows the Queensland Police investigation into notorious child exploitation website, ‘The Love Zone’ which hosted thousands of members around the world who created, uploaded, and shared videos and photographic material of unimaginable acts against children. Australian documentary-maker Akhim Dev…

Ray Stevenson Joins 1242: Gateway To The West Cast

Ray Stevenson, most recently seen by global audiences as the lead antagonist in SS Rajamouli’s epic and celebrated awards season standout “RRR,” and earlier as Volstagg in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films “Thor,” “Thor: The Dark World,” “Thor: Ragnarok,” and in his roles in “Punisher: War Zone,” “Vikings,” has joined the cast of “1242: Gateway…

AIDC Announces Full 2023 Program

The Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC) have announced the full program for its 2023 event – including over 40 sessions, more than 120 speakers and 100-plus industry decision makers – taking place in-person at ACMI in Melbourne, from 5-8 March 2023 with an online-only international marketplace 9-11 March 2023. Natasha Gadd, CEO / Creative Director,…

Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre

Director Guy Ritchie Stars Jason Statham, Aubrey Plaza & Cary Elwes Rated M Score 4/6 Special agent Orson Fortune and his team of operatives recruit one of Hollywood’s biggest movie stars to help them on an undercover mission when the sale of a deadly new weapons technology threatens to disrupt the world order. It’s been…

Paperback Hero

Director Antony J. Bowman Starring Claudia Karvan, Hugh Jackman, Angie Milliken Rated M Score 4/6 An Australian truck driver writes romance novels. His engaged, tomboyish, crop duster best friend’s name, Ruby Vale, is unasked used as author. Complications arise when his novel takes off. Will they remain friends or…? Okay even though I don’t think…

New Leash on Life Greenlit by ABC

Screenwest is pleased to announce that New Leash on Life, a feel-good, family-friendly documentary series with our love of dogs at its core, has been greenlit for production as part of the ABC Factual Formats Initiative. “We are so excited to be bringing New Leash on Life to the ABC, and hope it will transform…

Doctor Who: Destiny of the Daleks

Director Ken Grieve Starring Tom Baker & Lalla Ward Rated PG Score 5/6 The Daleks arrive on Skaro centuries Genesis of the Daleks to find their creator Davros in suspended animation. They seek his guidance to help them beat the Movellan race with whom the Daleks are in a stalemated war. Destiny of the Daleks…

Coles Continues DROPPED&LOCKED

Coles has continued its commitment to help Australian household budgets go further, and give customers important price reassurance, by announcing it will drop and lock the price of more than 300 new items across supermarkets and online from 18 January until after the Easter Weekend, 11 April 2023. Coles Chief Executive of Commercial and Express…