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‘Phi and Me’.

Screen Australia has provided almost $800,000 in production funding for five online projects, featuring talent such as Mark Grentell, Enzo Tedeschi, Rosie Lourde, Kristy Best, Geraldine Hickey and Diana Nguyen.

Online investment manager Lee Naimo said: “I’m excited to support such a wide range of original ideas in this slate, including Cloudy River presenting a contemporary perspective on relationships and Lgbtqi+ experiences, and Deadhouse Dark breaking the mould with a series of online horror films.”

“We have been impressed by the quality of the applications coming through and have started to see teams coming with fully formed pilots and very clear plans for producing and marketing their work. Creators are becoming very aware of their audience, with some teams leveraging their existing online fanbases or transferring audiences from live acts to screen projects. This innovation is evident in finance plans too, where we are seeing much more...

Claudia O’Doherty. (Photo: Ramona Rosales © augustimage.com (USA) ravenandsnow.com (Aus))

Screen Australia backed four short-form comedies and one drama with close to $500,000 in its most recent online production funding round.

Four of the creative teams are to receive Screen Australia funding for the first time, including producers Karen Colston and Robbie Miles who will create the six-part parody Sarah’s Channel for ABC iview. Claudia O’Doherty (Trainwreck, Love) will star as a beauty vlogger Sarah who discovers she’s been reanimated after an apocalypse. Live performer and theatre playwright Nick Coyle will make the jump to screen to write and direct.

“I’m thrilled (and surprised) that my idea of a Beauty Vlogger uploading videos in a post-apocalyptic world has been green-lit, and excited to be collaborating with such a fantastic team to bring it to life,” said Coyle. “There is so much comedy to mine in the online influencer world,...

Kristy Best has appeared in 'Neighbours', 'Airlock', 'Teenage Kicks' and the upcoming 'Dance Academy' feature..

The biggest issue facing the Australian film or TV industry is: Time, opportunity and money for experimentation.

Best movie quote of all time: "You stop telling lies about me, I'll stop telling the truth about you". It's from Money Never Sleeps.—.don't judge me.

Do you Google yourself? Yes, mainly to see what nationality people think I am this week.

If you could live inside one of your shows, would you? Which one? I made a short some years ago called Something Fishy. I would live in that world in a second, regardless of how macabre it is.

Classics I would like to remake: American Psycho with an all-female cast.

Favourite comedy film/show of all time: Nothing has made me laugh more than the Danish black comedy Adam's Apples.

(l-r) Marc Furmie, Enzo Tedeschi, Dan Mor, Igor Breakenback.

Online sci-fi series Airlock,.starring Mark Coles Smith (Last Cab to Darwin) and Dan Mor (Arrowhead), will premiere in Australia on the SyFy Channel next month.

Premiering as a telemovie, Airlock is the work of creator-producer Enzo Tedeschi and director Marc Furmie (Terminus), and is about "a drifting derelict spaceship [which] docks with an isolated space station". .

"Inside is a dead crew and a band of stowaway refugees. Tasked with the investigation, security officer Jonah Ashbrook (Mark Coles Smith) is thrown headlong into a series of events that will turn life on the station into a life or death crisis".

It stars Dwaine Stevenson (Infini) as well as Kristy Best and was funded by Screen Australia through the Multi-platform Drama program..

Tedeschi's Deadhouse Films appointed Rockzeline as the international sales agent, and Rockzeline has sold the series to Studio Plus (CanalPlay International...

Short film The Maker triumphed at the Bondi Short Film Festival Awards on Saturday, walking away with four prizes, including Best Film and the People.s Choice Award.

The popular festival, now in its twelfth year, was held at the iconic Bondi Beach Pavilion in front of a sell-out crowd.

The list of 14 finalists was deliberated over by a well-known panel of judges.from the flim and television industry, including Noni Hazlehurst, Christiaan Van Vuuren, Jessica Tovey, Kristy Best, Dr Ruth Harley and Andrew McFarlane.

Director of the Bondi Short Film Festival, Francis Coady said, "It is heartening to see such large crowds of people supporting independent Australian film year on year. We look forward to unearthing and presenting more wonderful films in 2013 and beyond.. A full list of winners can be found below..

Showtime Movie Channels .Best Film Award' The.Maker .. Directed by Christopher Kezelos Proof Sunglasses .Best Script...

ABC2 has four new local programs premieringthroughout September; comedy Twentysomething, film show The Bazura Project, live music show Triple J Presents and documentary night Sunday Best.

Kicking off on ABC2 is Twentysomething, a 6x30minute series that sees two best friends deal with unemployment, eviction, and avoiding real life that the rest of their friends (Jess Harris and Josh Schmidt) are tackling such as finishing university and climbing the corporate ladder, and settling down. It also starts Hamish Blake, Simon Russell and Leah de Niese.

Twentysomething premieres Tuesday 6 September at 9pm.

The Bazura Project is a six-part comedy show written by Shannon Marinko and Lee Zachariah. Presenting their ‘Guide to Sinema’ with an emphasis on the ‘sin’, they’ll explore the six social vices that make films so appealing: Sex, Violence, Money, Profanity, Drugs and Fame. The Bazura Project was formerly broadcast on community TV across Australia.

The Bazura Project premieres Monday 19 September,...