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Local screen production in Queensland has hit a high this financial year, according to Acting Queensland Premier Curtis Pitt..

Nine films, documentaries, and TV series have been supported with Screen Queensland production investment since July 2016.

.These nine productions are due to spend a combined estimated total of $26 million in Queensland, creating over 300 local jobs,. Mr Pitt said.

.This is one of the state.s most successful and competitive periods of screen production investment by the Queensland Government, through Screen Queensland..

.The list of productions highlight the strength of the local screen industry, the depth of talent and skills we have in Queensland, and the confidence business has in our state."

The state government has committed $30 million in funding over a four-year period to June 2019 to foster growth in local productions and attract large-scale film and high-end television productions..

.This approach not only generates jobs and investment, it also helps build...

Exclusive: Jonathan Teplitzky (The Railway Man) to direct feature heading to Efm with Metro International.

Metro International has boarded sales ahead of the Efm on crime-comedy Mr. Cranky, which has Brendan Gleeson (In Bruges) on board to star as a crime boss debt collector with a raging temper who is saddled with an orphaned seven year old in the middle of a gangland war.

The Railway Man director Jonathan Teplizky is due to direct Chris Nyst’s (Crooked Business) script which is to be produced by Chris Brown (The Railway Man).

The film reunites Teplitzky with Nyst after the two collaborated on 2003 Australian crime-comedy Gettin’ Square, starring Sam Worthington and Timothy Spall.

In Mr. Cranky, when a gangland war erupts thanks to crime boss Kevin Darcy’s short temper, his ex-girlfriend becomes the victim of a car bomb intended for him, and he finds himself saddled with her seven-year-old daughter.

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For the best part of 20 years Chris Blackburn tried his hand at writing film scripts, a sideline to his day jobs as a newspaper and TV reporter, reality show producer and, currently, as a co-executive producer on Big Brother.

Eighteen months ago he had an idea for a crime drama about a young man whose sister has been brutally murdered, set primarily in a row of vacant houses near his home on the north coast of Nsw.

Blackburn wrote the script and asked his son Tim, a TV editor who has directed several short films to direct. Entitled Burns Point, the film is now in day seven of a 21-day shoot in and around the town of Ballina.

Asked how he.s financed the film, Chris tells If, .It.s mostly me. I.ve saved up for this and put money aside." Cast and crew are working on deferred. fees in some cases.