Screen Australia invests $2.7mil in 8 docos

Screen Australia have announced $2.7million in investment across eight documentaries which will trigger nearly $10million worth of production.

In the announcement, SBS’s popular Who Do You Think You Are? series will return for a fifth series while Academy Award winner Eva Orner will go behind the scenes of a TV network.

Under the General Documentary Program, Who Do You Think You Are?, produced by Artemis and Serendipity Productions and ABC’s Family Confidential – which enters homes of some of Australia’s most significant households – have received funding.

First Footprints, directed/produced by Martin Butler and Bentley Dean for ABCTV, about the peopling of Australia over e three-part series received funding through the National Documentary Program.