Sophie Hyde.
Screen Australia and ABC have announced the five successful projects to be funded through the $1.5 million Long Story Short initiative. Each project will be funded to create and produce a short-form, digital-first scripted series for 18-35 year olds, to screen on ABC iview. The five successful creative teams were chosen from more than 250 applications, and offer a mix of comedy and drama. Each will participate in a two-day workshop in July, led by ABC TV executives and multiplatform writer and script developer Mike Jones. .We were blown away by the standard of the applications, there were so many strong creative teams in the mix. We think these five projects really know their audience and will work so well as digital-first content,. said Screen Australia investment manager Mike Cowap. .We.re thrilled to team with Screen Australia on so many fantastic new scripted projects, building on ABC iview.s reputation for world class digital-first,...
Screen Australia and ABC have announced the five successful projects to be funded through the $1.5 million Long Story Short initiative. Each project will be funded to create and produce a short-form, digital-first scripted series for 18-35 year olds, to screen on ABC iview. The five successful creative teams were chosen from more than 250 applications, and offer a mix of comedy and drama. Each will participate in a two-day workshop in July, led by ABC TV executives and multiplatform writer and script developer Mike Jones. .We were blown away by the standard of the applications, there were so many strong creative teams in the mix. We think these five projects really know their audience and will work so well as digital-first content,. said Screen Australia investment manager Mike Cowap. .We.re thrilled to team with Screen Australia on so many fantastic new scripted projects, building on ABC iview.s reputation for world class digital-first,...
- 6/23/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
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