Screen Australia has released draft guidelines for comment covering development support, production financing and indigenous programmes. The four-month-old government film agency has USD60.5 million to spend each year.
Kang Han-sup, the recently elected chairman of KOFIC, has come under increased pressure recently to be more proactive in helping Korea's ailing film industry. He has at last outlined KOFIC's plans.
The UK-based production company Academy Films have opened a new entertainment and online film division, Academy Content.
The German film industry has explained its services and funding opportunities to Bollywood in a presentation in Mumbai.
FilmL.A., the nonprofit organization that coordinates permits for filmed entertainment shot on-location in the City of Los Angeles, has announced that on-location feature film and commercial production experienced steep declines in the third quarter of 2008 while television gains buoyed overall production numbers.
At the end of October UK and Indian filmmakers gathered at a top level summit in London to explore how they could work more closely together to benefit the industries in both countries.
The new Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has promised to make it easier to film in the city.
Partizan, one of the largest and most award-laden production companies in the world, continues to expand its operations with a new office in Berlin. The office will be run by Moritz Merkel.