VicScreen

It’s been a record-breaking year for factual storytelling. 🌟

VicScreen supported 45 documentary projects with $2.2 million across development and production in 2025–26. ✨🎥

Two VicScreen supported documentaries have been nominated for a TV WEEK Logie Award:
🎥 But Also John Clarke
🎥 Revealed: Death Cap Murders

Twenty years on, their voices are rising again. 🎶

Production is underway in Melbourne on Choir of Hard Knocks: A New Chorus for ABC iview.

This moving new four-part series follows the choir as they celebrate their extraordinary legacy, while welcoming a new generation and preparing for an unforgettable gala concert.

A powerful story of resilience, connection and the transformative power of music. 🎼🎤❤️

The production company behind Choir of Hard Knocks: A New Chorus is Fremantle Australia.

The annual Castlemaine Documentary Festival returns this weekend for a mid-winter celebration of films.

Across three nights and two days, it anchors a vibrant year-round program including Club CDoc, filmmaker workshops, LOCALS screenings and pop-up events at the iconic Theatre Royal. 🎥 🎫

Don’t miss the VicScreen supported documentary, How Deep Is Your Love, on Saturday 27 June. 🎬

From filmmaker Eleanor Mortimer (UK), this visually stunning and urgent film plunges into the deep sea, where biologists race to discover and name species before deep-sea mining threatens these fragile ecosystems. 💙 🪸 🐟 🐡

Get your tickets now: https://cdocff.com.au/program/how-deep-is-your-love/

UNTAPPED returns for 2026! 🎬

Australians in Film, in partnership with Screen Australia, has announced the return of its talent initiative, UNTAPPED, connecting Australia’s most exciting emerging screen creatives with global mentorship, networks and industry insight.

The program continues to be a powerful pathway for new voices, including Victorian creatives making waves on the global stage. ✨

This year’s Masterclass Series highlights standout success stories, including:
• Adrian Chiarella (Leviticus), whose debut feature premiered at Sundance and has just opened in Australia
• Kalu Oji (Pasa Faho, UNTAPPED 2021), whose debut feature premiered at MIFF and is now streaming on SBS On Demand
• AP Pobjoy (Homebodies, UNTAPPED 2022)
• Jasmine Yang (Glitch Productions)

The 2026 program includes open-access masterclasses and a development lab focusing on career-building, helping filmmakers develop sustainable pathways in the screen industry.

💻 VicScreen is supporting Victorian talent to participate in this incredible initiative, apply here → https://bit.ly/4eyeClu

Global publishers are heading to Play Now Melbourne 2026. 🚨

Australia’s largest games market is gearing up for its biggest year yet, with world-leading publishers confirmed. 🕹️🌏

Joining us in Melbourne: Devolver Digital, Massive Monster, PlaySide, Pavlova Games, Landfall, Fellow Traveller Games, Focus Entertainment, Dotemu, The Arcade Crew, Umbrella Entertainment, Wings and Ultra Players.

With first-time attendees thatgamecompany, Jackbox Games, Playstack and Creature.

Presented by with support from , connects Australian developers with global publishers, platform holders and investors, creating opportunities to take local games to the world.

If you’re an Australian game developer with a project in active development seeking funding, or publishing, the link is in the bio to apply now.

Expressions of Interest close Monday 29 June. 🎮🗓️

Victoria is shining on the national stage. ✨🎥🌟

Congratulations to all the VicScreen-supported productions and talent nominated for the TV WEEK Logie Awards 2026, showcasing the depth, creativity and impact of Victoria’s screen industry. 📺

From Dear Life and The Survivors to Deadloch, Goolagong and more, we’re proud to support stories and storytellers making waves at home and around the world. 👏

Melbourne is stepping into 1930s San Francisco! 🌉

Fresh off the success of Thrash and War Machine, Victoria is taking centre stage, with Fog City choosing Melbourne as its filming home. 🎥

Melbourne heritage icons like Labassa Mansion, Rippon Lea Estate, Palais Theatre, The Hotel Windsor, and a converted ‘backlot’ at Docklands Studios Melbourne, will be transformed into Depression-era San Francisco.

👀 Find out more: https://bit.ly/4ejJojb

From Melbourne writer/director Adrian Chiarella comes Leviticus, the breakout Sundance Film Festival hit where desire becomes something deadly. 🪦

Set in regional Victoria, two teenage boys (Joe Bird and Stacy Clausen) are drawn together in a deeply conservative community, until their relationship is discovered and a sinister force is unleashed. Taking the form of what they desire most, each other, the entity turns their love into a terrifying curse. 🏳️‍🌈️‍💀

Leviticus was developed through VicScreen's Originate Features initiative and is produced by the team behind Talk to Me.

In cinemas today. 🎥🍿

The VicScreen supported documentary, Sumundimi Walks Before Me, has won the Sustainable Future Award at Sydney Film Festival. 🌿

The documentary follows an Indigenous community in Papua New Guinea as they fight to protect the Sepik River, “the Amazon of the Asia-Pacific”, from the threat of large-scale mining. When a global mining proposal puts this vital ecosystem at risk, community leader Emmanuel (Manu) Peni leads a grassroots campaign grounded in ancestral knowledge, culture and deep spiritual connection to land and water.

Filmmakers Matasila Freshwater and Lachlan McLeod capture a moving portrait of resilience, as the Sepik people defend not just their environment, but their identity.

Well done to Infinit3 who won the VicScreen Innovation Award last night at St Kilda Film Festival. 🏆