Screen Australia announces ten new documentary projects
Screen Australia has announced it will invest $3.2m into ten new documentary projects. David Peters will produce ‘The Flying Miners’, a three-part series about fly-in-fly-out Australian miners and their everyday travels. Journalist Howard Jacobson will create a two-part documentary ‘Wizards of Oz’ which follows cultural icons such as Germaine Greer and Clive James.
The announcement:
Screen Australia today announced over $3.2 million investment in 10 documentaries, generating almost $10 million in production.
From the National Documentary Program (NDP), 88, directed by Adrian Russell Wills, tells a story from 1988 that would change the nation, when 30,000 Aboriginal people marched in Sydney. The documentary is written by both Adrian Russell Wills and Michaela Perske, and is produced for the ABC by Michaela Perske.
