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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.

Beloved characters confirmed to return, this time on the outside. 

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.
 

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.