Applications are open for the next SBS / NITV Digital Originals initiative with Screen Australia until 5pm AEST, Thursday 15 August 2024.
Screen Australia, SBS and NITV will host a Digital Originals information webinar on 19 July with SBS Scripted Commissioning Editor, Nakul Legha, Acting Head of Indigenous Commissioning and Production at NITV, Adam Manovic, and Screen Australia Head of Online and Games, Lee Naimo, followed by a Q&A.
Date: Friday 19 July 2024
Time: 10 – 11am AEST
Register: Click here
Accessibility: An Auslan interpreter will be made available for the webinar. If you would like to discuss this or other accessibility requirements, please contact Online@screenaustralia.gov.au or call 1800 507 901.
The Digital Originals initiative was created to elevate talent historically under-represented in the sector, including people who identify as culturally and linguistically diverse, First Nations Australians, people with disability, female and gender diverse, LGBTQIA+; and those who are located in regional and remote areas. It continues to prove itself as an effective pathway for creators to advance their skills, and as a launch-pad for their projects to attract local interest and break into international markets.
Most recently, Night Bloomers premiered in October 2023, with creator Andrew Uni Lee winning an Australian Writers’ Guild Award for Best Web Series. That followed Appetite in April 2023 which was selected as one of 10 series in the Short Form Competition at Canneseries 2023, and was also nominated for a Rose d’Or. Latecomers premiered in December 2022 and won the 2024 AACTA Award for Best Online Drama or Comedy, and was also featured in the Short Forms Competition at Series Mania in 2023.
Alumni of Digital Originals have also gone on to take on key creative roles across SBS Original drama series and elsewhere in the industry, including Mohini Herse (Appetite) who is set-up Director for the upcoming SBS Original Four Years Later, producer Liam Heyen (Latecomers, Erotic Stories), director Madeleine Gottlieb (Latecomers, Erotic Stories), Stevie Cruz-Martin (The Tailings, Safe Home), as well as Corrie Chen and Michelle Law (Homecoming Queens), and Dylan River (Robbie Hood).
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