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Media Releases  7 Mar 2025

Genre at the forefront of VicScreen’s latest Originate initiative

VicScreen today announced a bold new development initiative, Originate Genre, designed to nurture the next generation of Victorian storytellers to bring new voices to commercial cinema. 

Features / Film & TV  6 Mar 2025

HEAR FROM THE CO-DIRECTORS OF ANTHOLOGY FILM, MY MELBOURNE

VicScreen asked three of the film’s co-directors about their experiences learning from some of the most respected directors in India to pull off this unique film. 
 

THE BUSINESS OF CREATIVITY: SIR WILLIAM SARGENT ON POLICY, PROFIT AND THE UK’S SCREEN BOOM 

A leader in the global VFX and creative industries, Sir William Sargent explains the meteoric rise of the UK’s screen industry off the back of strategic government intervention and what’s required to sustain the creative pipeline.

Features / Film & TV  3 Mar 2025

FIRST NATIONS SPOTLIGHT: TRACEY RIGNEY 

Award-winning playwright and filmmaker and proud Wotjobaluk and Ngarrindjeri woman, Tracey Rigney, illuminates her journey into the screen industry and how she hopes to carve out pathways for other First Nations folk to follow in her footsteps.
 

Media Releases  27 Feb 2025

MIFF, AFL and VicScreen kick off Footy Shorts

MIFF, the AFL and VicScreen have teamed up to launch Footy Shorts, an exciting initiative giving emerging Victorian filmmakers the chance to make a short documentary about Australian Football – both on and off the field.

Features  25 Feb 2025

INSIDE THE WRITING AND DIRECTING MIND OF CHARLES WILLIAMS

First-time feature filmmaker Charles Williams discusses success, the precarious nature of filmmaking, and what he hopes audiences will take away from his unique prison drama, Inside
 

Media Releases  21 Feb 2025

Knee High Spies are on the case in Victoria

VicScreen, ABC, the Australian Children’s Television Foundation and Screen Australia have announced that that filming is underway in Melbourne on the new children’s series Knee High Spies. 

Media Releases  19 Feb 2025

New series Love Divided By Eleven in love with in Victoria

VicScreen, Stan and Screen Australia have announced the poignant new six-part drama series, Love Divided By Eleven.
 

Media Releases  17 Feb 2025

Liam Neeson hits the road in Victoria for The Mongoose

Liam Neeson has hit the road in Victoria to make The Mongoose, his third film in the state in four years.


 

Media Releases  13 Feb 2025

VicScreen announces successful participants in groundbreaking TV writing talent escalator, Originate Series

An Australian-first talent escalation initiative designed by VicScreen to give emerging and mid-career television writers unparallelled writers’ room access and craft-building mentorship is underway. 

Features  12 Feb 2025

BUILDING GHOULISH: HORROR, CONNECTION, AND THE INDIE GAMES JOURNEY

Ghoulish Director and Developer Mickey Krekelberg and Character Artist Chantel Eagle share how VicScreen’s Originate Games initiative launched their studio and set their debut game in motion.
 

Features  7 Feb 2025

SHOWCASING MELBOURNE IN APPLE CIDER VINEGAR

Melbourne and regional Victoria dazzle as the backdrop in the new Netflix drama, Apple Cider Vinegar. Shot almost entirely on location, there are dozens of neighbourhood favourites to spot in the six-part series.