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‘Secret City: Under the Eagle’, shot in Canberra.

Screen Canberra has launched a $250,000 special purpose fund to support the local sector through the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Made In Cbr fund, formulated with industry feedback, will support the development of projects that have market potential and the development of Act-based screen professionals. It covers feature film, television and creative interactive screen entertainment/cross platform projects.

The funding is in the form of a loan; it is not a grant. It is intended by Screen Canberra to be one part of a project’s overall finance strategy. The application and administration fees will be waived for this initiative.

“Screen industry professionals often have limited resources and time for development of projects. Many do have time right now with productions shut down and we are working to turn adversity into a benefit. Screen Canberra will support writers and producers to help keep their...

If you quote the columnist on the poster, you get into the poster column. All kidding aside, I was a big fan of Geoff Redknap's The Unseen, a Canuck-indie take on The Invisible Man story, and the quirky original artwork by Andrew Barr, that debuted at the Fantasia Film Festival in 2016. Here, after Raven Banner picked up the distribution of the film, is a slightly more conventional, dark and brooding take that might be confused, at first glance, with an eco horror or monster picture (along the lines of The Last Winter or The Thing), if it were indeed not for the pull quotes at the top. A nice touch here is the credit block in the middle of the poster, so translucent (on...

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