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Industry Updates / Media Releases   16 Dec 2025

Groundbreaking partnership backs Victoria’s games industry

As Victoria’s digital games sector continues to create internationally acclaimed games, the Victorian Government, through VicScreen is partnering with one of our most successful homegrown games studios to level up the state’s digital games industry and support the next generation, through a new investment fund and co-working space and industry hub.

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Digital Games / Events / Film & TV / Play Now Melbourne   8 Dec 2025

A YEAR OF BIG IDEAS AND BOLD STORYTELLING

As 2025 comes to an end, savour the moment by looking back at the bold and inspiring films, TV shows, games and events that were produced and presented right here in Victoria to international acclaim.

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Film & TV   30 Oct 2025

A TERRIFYING LOOK INTO VICTORIA’S HORROR FILM HISTORY AND PRESENT

Victoria has a long, proud and terrifying history of producing some of the best horror films— and horror filmmakers — Australia has ever seen. From telekinetic, murderous coma patients to haunted nursing homes, we’ve collated a list of the most disturbing and influential Victorian-made horror films.

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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion / Events / Film & TV   20 Oct 2025

What India’s Screen Stars love about Melbourne

The Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM) invigorates the city each year, bringing together the biggest and boldest voices in South Asian cinema to meet local fans and industry. We asked some of the guests about their thoughts on Melbourne.

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Digital Games / Play Now Melbourne   14 Oct 2025

Play Now Melbourne 2025 Highlights

Play Now Melbourne, Australia's pre-eminent games market, returned to Melbourne International Games Week in 2025. This year 21 international and local publishers, platform holders and investors heard pitches from 78 projects. Check out the highlights from the day.

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Events / Features / Film & TV   12 Sep 2025

The Family Next Door: Adapting Sally Hepworth’s Best-selling Book for TV

New York Times best-selling Victorian author Sally Hepworth has penned nine novels, selling millions of books worldwide. One of them, The Family Next Door, has been adapted into a new television series currently airing on the ABC and available on ABC iview.

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Events   31 Aug 2026

Sweet Milk Lake Premiere

Sweet Milk Lake celebrated its World Premiere at Melbourne International Film Festival. Supported through VicScreen’s Originate Features initiative and the Melbourne International Film Festival Premiere Fund, Harvey Zielinski's debut feature is a raw and heartfelt story of identity, belonging and self-acceptance.

Indian Film Festival of Melbourne 2026

The Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM) is the largest annual celebration of Indian cinema outside India. IFFM showcases some of the most diverse, inclusive, groundbreaking films and filmmakers, whilst encapsulating the best of cinema from the Indian subcontinent. Here are some of the highlights of the 2026 festival.

Media Releases   20 Aug 2026

New Brie Larson film wraps in Victoria

Skeletons, a new feature film starring starring Academy Award® winner Brie Larson, has wrapped filming across Victoria, including at the former home of Neighbours.

Skeletons, a new feature film starring starring Academy Award® winner Brie Larson, has wrapped filming across Victoria, including at the former home of Neighbours.

Media Releases   30 Jul 2026

From punchline to pilot: VicScreen and Melbourne International Comedy Festival join forces to find Victoria’s next on-screen comedy hit

VicScreen and the Melbourne International Comedy Festival have joined forces to bring Victoria's next wave of comedy talent from stage to screen.

Media Releases   24 Jul 2026

Production begins on brand-new drama series Wentworth: Halfway Home

VicScreen, Foxtel Group and Screen Australia today announced that Wentworth: Halfway Home, a brand-new Australian original drama series set in the freedom-adjacent world made famous by the iconic series Wentworth, will be filmed and post-produced in Victoria.

Digital Games   17 Jul 2026

A recap on BitSummit

Alongside nine other VicScreen-supported delegates, Clownbaby game developer Lauren T, aka T-Dog eXtreme, travelled to Kyoto, Japan for four jam-packed days at BitSummit.

Stars align for Australian Canadian Co-production now filming in Melbourne

Principal photography has begun in Melbourne on the new feature film Written in the Stars.

Features   29 Jun 2026

FIRST NATIONS SPOTLIGHT: TAMMY LEE ROCK

Tammy Lee Rock is a Pakana actor, artist, filmmaker, writer, director and producer from Lutruwita (Tasmania) focussed on telling the kinds of stories that remain severely underrepresented – stories written, produced and performed by Aboriginal people.

VicScreen locks in top global games publishers for Play Now Melbourne 2026

Australia’s largest games market Play Now Melbourne is gearing up for its biggest year yet with the world’s top game publishers confirmed to attend.

Media Releases   19 Jun 2026

Melbourne transforms into San Francisco in new feature Fog City

Fresh from the roaring success of Victorian-made feature films Thrash and War Machine, Victoria is once again taking centre stage as a powerhouse of screen production with Fog City commencing filming in Melbourne this week.

First Peoples filmmakers explore Treaty in Sovereign Shorts

VicScreen, National Indigenous Television (NITV) and Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF), today announced the four distinctive projects that have been selected for Sovereign Shorts.

Play Now Melbourne is back for 2026

Australia’s largest games market Play Now Melbourne will return on 8 October 2026 during Melbourne International Games Week.