Screen Australia and SBS have announced production funding for Digital Original series Iggy & Ace, to premiere on SBS On Demand. The Digital Originals initiative was created to develop exciting and innovative scripted short-form projects providing opportunities for writers from backgrounds that are currently underrepresented in the screen industry, and it will return in 2021.…
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SBS and Screen Australia Announce Short-Form Drama The Tailings
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SBS and Screen Australia are thrilled to announce The Tailings, a short-form online drama series to premiere on SBS On Demand in 2021. Directed by Stevie Cruz-Martin (PULSE, Marrow), the 6 x 10 minute series follows a daughter’s investigation into her father’s death. It takes place in her tight-knit, remote community in the wilderness of…
Digital originals receive development funds from Screen Australia and SBS
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Three online projects from the 2019 Digital Originals initiative will share in $65,000 of development funds from Screen Australia and SBS. A Beginner’s Guide to Grief, Freewheelers and Iggy & Ace 5eva were selected from the 10 projects workshopped last year and will now be developed further with the intention of at least one going…
New Gold Mountain Coming to SBS in 2020
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SBS and Screen Australia are thrilled to announce the commission of a new four-part Australian drama series for 2020 New Gold Mountain. Continuing SBS’s streak of critically acclaimed original dramas, New Gold Mountain, a revisionist Western, will join SBS’s supernatural drama series, Hungry Ghosts, as part of the network’s bold drama offering next year. This…
Greens oppose changes to SBS advertising
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Senator Scott Ludlam Australian Greens communications spokesperson has announced that The Australian Greens will oppose the government’s moves to increase advertising on SBS with government senators backing the flawed bill in a Senate inquiry report tabled today. A Greens and ALP dissenting report recommends that the bill not be passed. “By pushing ahead with this…
Something for Mr Abbott to think about
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Okay in the light of the recent cuts to the ABC here is something for the government to take into consideration. According to recent research released by Roy Morgan almost 11.8 million Australians 14+ (61%) cited at least one ABC or ABC2 television show they ‘especially choose to watch’ in the year to September 2014—and…
Palmer calls for Government to keep pre-election promises
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Member for Fairfax Clive Palmer MP commented federal budget is worrying many Fairfax constituents, particularly those on aged pensions. Mr Palmer added that a series of softening up statements from Federal Treasurer Joe Hockey has put many pensioners under unnecessary and unwelcome stress with a string of the government’s pre-election promises set to be broken…