Queensland-based production company Hoodlum’s supernatural thriller Tidelands has been announced as the first recipient of Screen Australia’s new High-end Television Development programme, launched in October last year. The eight-part series fuses a contemporary crime thriller with haunting folklore and is the brainchild of writer Stephen M. Irwin, BAFTA and Emmy®–winning producers Nathan Mayfield and Tracey Robertson, and Hoodlum’s Head of TV, Leigh … [Read more...] about Crime thriller series receives Screen Australia funding
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Screen Australia withdraws funding for QPIX
From January 1, 2014, QPIX, Queensland’s filmmaker development centre will no longer receive government funding to deliver its professional development services to the early-career sector of the screen industry throughout the State. QPIX has been advised by its principal funding sources, Screen Queensland (and, as a result, Screen Australia) that its funding will not continue. Both agencies have agreed to provide some transitional funding to allow QPIX to complete its teaching … [Read more...] about Screen Australia withdraws funding for QPIX
