News Category: Industry Updates

Film Victoria congratulates the Victorian nominees in the 6th AACTA Awards presented by Foxtel.

The Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM) – one of Australia’s most significant foreign language film events – has been locked in until 2018 with support from the Victorian Government. 

The 2016 Screen Forever Conference has wrapped for another year following a jam-packed program of events including In Conversation sessions with Bruna Papandrea, Keli Lee and Graham Yost. 

Geelong’s Back to Back Theatre will leap from stage to screen and an Australian-made video game and graphic novel will become an animated feature as part of Film Victoria’s latest round of production funding.

During his time in Victoria shooting The Leftovers Series 3, US producer Eugene Kelly sat down with experienced producers and writers to share some of his insights into the business, collected over a lifetime working on features and television series with Columbia, Warner Bros., Disney, Sony and HBO.

Winchester, the new supernatural thriller from Peter and Michael Spierig (Predestination), today announced production would commence in early 2017 following confirmation of investment from Film Victoria and Screen Australia

Congratulations to the nominees for the 2016 Screen Producers Australia Awards, with a particular shout out to the Victorian projects up for an award this year.

Film Victoria CEO Jenni Tosi provides her welcome address at the 2016 Generation Next: Screen Creators’ Conference by Open Channel.

Australia’s hub for game development received another boost today with eight Victorian game developers to share in more than $348,000 through Film Victoria’s two streams of game funding. 

Three Victorian filmmakers will see their features make their world debut with selection at two of the most highly regarded cinematic events in the world – the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) and Venice Film Festival (VFF).