Screen Australia invests in four docs

Screen Australia has announced an investment of almost $15 million into 13 new projects, four of which are documentaries. The investment will trigger production worth $72 million dollars. The four selected documentaries include Big Stories Small Towns, from filmmakers Jeni Lee and Sieh Mchawala, which is a collaborative multi-platform doc project; The Multicultural History Interactive Documentary from the Chocolate Liberation Front, which is a series of interactive documentary, resource hub and game all rolled into one; Trafficked - The Reckoning from Fair Trade Films Pty Ltd and director Luigi Acquisto about the story of a woman who was enslaved in a Sydney brothel and her journey of bringing the man who enslaved her to justice; and Australia: The Land That Time Forgot from Essential Media and director Richard Smith, about the diversity of Australia from the birth of the solar system to the modern world.