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The Australian Film Television & Radio School (Aftrs), Screen Australia and the state screen agencies have united to put on a skills development program for emerging practitioners from diverse backgrounds.

According to a joint statement, the national program is in part a response to industry concern about the lack of diversity in the screen sector.

Known as Talent Camp, workshops will focus on story development, screen producing and career pathways..

The program will run between September and November across Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Hobart, Adelaide, Perth, and Darwin, with 12-15 participants to be selected for each workshop. .

The call out is for stories from creatives from communities under-represented in screen culture, with reference to cultural background, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, geographic and/ or socio-economic circumstances. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander creatives are strongly encouraged to apply.

.Aftrs CEO Neil Peplow said all partners were committed to providing opportunities...

Local screen production in Queensland has hit a high this financial year, according to Acting Queensland Premier Curtis Pitt..

Nine films, documentaries, and TV series have been supported with Screen Queensland production investment since July 2016.

.These nine productions are due to spend a combined estimated total of $26 million in Queensland, creating over 300 local jobs,. Mr Pitt said.

.This is one of the state.s most successful and competitive periods of screen production investment by the Queensland Government, through Screen Queensland..

.The list of productions highlight the strength of the local screen industry, the depth of talent and skills we have in Queensland, and the confidence business has in our state."

The state government has committed $30 million in funding over a four-year period to June 2019 to foster growth in local productions and attract large-scale film and high-end television productions..

.This approach not only generates jobs and investment, it also helps build...

Storm Boy.

Screen Australia has unveiled the recipients of its last production investment funding round of 2016. $15 million is shared between seven films and eight television projects, including anticipated titles such as Fred Schepisi.s Andorra and the Shawn Seet remake of Storm Boy..

.We are delighted to be supporting TV projects from so many of the major players all in one round including Foxtel, Channel Seven, Network Ten, the ABC and Sbs," CEO Graeme Mason said. "And in film we look forward to seeing the latest from acclaimed talents Fred Schepisi, Jonathan Teplitzky and John Maynard."

The successful feature film projects are:.

– A contemporary re-imagining of 1976 classic Storm Boy from writer Justin Monjo (The Secret Daughter, Spear), director Shawn Seet (Deep Water, The Code) and Ambience Entertainment producers Michael Boughen and Matthew Street (Tomorrow When the War Began). This time around we meet Mike .Storm Boy. Kingley as a grandfather...

Following last weeks initial teaser, AMC released a second clip – entitled No Safe Harbour – for the highly anticipated second season of Fear the Walking Dead which premieres on 11th April 2016 on AMC, exclusive to BT.

Living in the same universe as The Walking Dead, Fear the Walking Dead is a gritty drama that explores the onset of the undead apocalypse through the lens of a fractured family. Set in a city where people come to escape, shield secrets, and bury their pasts, a mysterious outbreak threatens to disrupt what little stability high school guidance counselor Madison Clark (Kim Dickens) and English teacher Travis Manawa (Cliff Curtis) have managed to assemble. The everyday pressure of blending two families while dealing with resentful, escapist, and strung out children takes a back seat when society begins to break down. A forced evolution, a necessary survival of the fittest takes hold, and our dysfunctional...

The larger-than-life tycoon behind Megaupload.com, in New Zealand facing Us piracy charges, has made a dance album to distract himself from his woes. But how does he fit that in with playing Call of Duty all night?

Rush hour has begun on a sunny Friday afternoon but Kim Dotcom, internet entrepreneur and bete noire of the entertainment industry, is asleep. He keeps strange hours – working, eating and gaming all night, sleeping most of the day.

I'm not the only one waiting for him to wake in the shady outdoor dining area of the Dotcom mansion, a Nz$30m (£15m) pile half an hour's drive north of Auckland. James Kimmer, Dotcom's political adviser, whose other clients include the recently freed Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, is here to shoot a campaign ad for Dotcom's new political party, which will contest the next New Zealand general election, almost certain to be held at some point this year.