Australian TV Veterans Launch Lantern Pictures to Implant Creative Showrunner System Down Under
20.03.2024 - 01:15
/ variety.com
Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief A trio of seasoned Australian television industry figures are launching a new production company, Lantern Pictures. They aim to produce a slate of independent TV content and to help implant the U.S. system of creative showrunners into the Australian scene.
The announcement was made on Wednesday by prominent writer and showrunner Sarah Lambert, director Jane Manning and former Foxtel media executive Andrew Lambert. They unveiled the new company at a seminar held during the ongoing Screen Forever convention in Queensland’s Gold Coast. The company is understood to be working on close to a dozen new projects, many with a significant female leaning, some flowing from Manning’s pen, others in partnership arrangements.
The first are likely to be announced in the coming two months. Sarah Lambert says that her recent experience producing the Sigourney Weaver-starring miniseries “The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart” for Amazon and Fifth Season, and her previous work in Europe and the U.S., motivated her to take a new approach. “Looking at the scale of projects that were being offered, in terms of writing and show-running… incredible pieces that you could do as genre pieces, bigger sorts of television, really exciting things … I wanted to bring those productions back here [to Australia].
Why weren’t we doing these productions?” she tells Variety. “It felt like this was the time to create a company which really put writer-creators and director-creators in the heart of production. It is not only about developing those projects here with our production partners, but also creating a system here where we take the writer-creator all the way through to the end of production, really honoring that authorial
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