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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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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.
 

Media Releases  7 May 2026

VicScreen backs exhibition of immersive expansion of award winning documentary The Giants

VicScreen has supported the continued creative life of the feature documentary The Giants, backing its evolution from a critically acclaimed film into a major new immersive screen experience now exhibiting at Melbourne Museum’s Learning Lab.

Media Releases  5 May 2026

Michael Shanks returns to Melbourne with Hotel Hotel Hotel Hotel

Victoria has secured another significant screen production, with feature film Hotel Hotel Hotel Hotel now filming at Docklands Studios Melbourne, utilising NantStudios’ world class virtual production stages and reinforcing the state’s end-to-end screen capability.

Media Releases  5 May 2026

MIFF, AFL and VicScreen name Footy Shorts teams for 2026

VicScreen, Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) and the AFL today announced the five filmmaking teams selected for the second round of Footy Shorts, a short-form documentary initiative celebrating the stories, communities and traditions surrounding Australian Rules Football.

Media Releases  20 Apr 2026

Local comedian gets the Greenlight Award as VicScreen and Melbourne International Comedy Festival launch new screen prize

VicScreen and the Melbourne International Comedy Festival have launched the VicScreen Greenlight Award, a new annual prize recognising a Victorian comedian with outstanding screen potential.

A PATHWAY INTO SCREEN: THREE EARLY-CAREER FIRST PEOPLES FILMMAKERS SHARE THEIR STORY

Up-and-coming First Peoples screen practitioners Travis Cloudy-Hensgen, Kynan Clarke and Merryn Trescott share their different industry pathways.

VicScreen appoints Sacha Gregson as Director, Content and Talent

VicScreen has appointed highly regarded television executive Sacha Gregson as Director, Content and Talent.