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Art Directors Burst Through the Pack
Creating an extravagant mythical world for director George Miller’s Three Thousand Years of Longing saw Sophie Nash and Nicholas Dare score a handy win at the 2023 Australian Production Design Guild awards.
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World’s Largest Virtual Production Stage at Docklands Studios
Melbourne’s standing as a leading destination for film and TV production has received a boost with the construction of the world’s largest LED volume screen.
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From Sewing Room to Film Set: Cappi Ireland’s Colourful Career
It was in the Australian Outback that a young Cappi Ireland found her calling in the film industry.
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Shantaram Producer’s Rave Review
Bharat Nalluri, director and executive producer of AppleTV+ drama Shantaram, has spoken enthusiastically about Docklands Studios Melbourne, insisting “it should be top of any producer’s list”.
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Meet the Prop Masters
From fake babies and vintage fishing rods to a bird’s nest or sex toy—you name it and screen industry prop masters Ashlan Dowling and Olivia Pulbrook can source it.
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Metropolis Comes to Melbourne
The Victorian and Commonwealth Governments will deliver cutting-edge new virtual production infrastructure at Docklands Studios Melbourne for the epic new TV series, Metropolis by NBCUniversal’s Universal Studio Group.