![Ready For This Wins The Logie! content](/assets/news/actf_news_reft_logies_2016.jpg)
Ready For This Wins The Logie!
The teen drama, Ready For This, has won the Award for Most Outstanding Children’s Program at the 2016 TV Week Logie Awards.
Produced as a joint venture by Blackfella Films and Werner Film Productions, Ready For This is distributed worldwide by the Australian Children’s Television Foundation.
The series follows six teens as they arrive at Arcadia House in Sydney from around Australia to pursue their dreams. For some, it’s the opportunity of a lifetime, for others it’s a last chance. All are strangers and the last thing they expect to find is family.
The series, which also won the AACTA Award in January, received critical acclaim when it went to air on ABC3 in 2015. Writing in The Age and Sydney Morning Herald, Darren Devlyn wrote: "Ready For This resonates because it so deftly tackles issues around Aboriginal culture and the state of blackfella-whitefella relationships, but also because it’s imbued with a unique brand of self-deprecating humour.”
See also:
July 12th 2024
Meet Australian Olympian swimmer, Wilhelmina Wylie
Do your students know the story of ‘Mina’ Wylie, one of our first female Olympians?
July 12th 2024
New release: Windcatcher learning resource
Our latest resource provides sequenced learning tasks to complement and extend a class or cohort screening of the feature film, Windcatcher.
July 12th 2024
Coming soon to cinemas: Runt film adaptation
Written by Craig Silvey and illustrated by Sara Acton, the novel Runt was published in 2022 and was named the 2023 Book of the Year for Younger Readers by the Children’s Book Council of Australia. Australian schools will soon have the chance to enjoy this story on screen.
June 28th 2024
NSW Year 9 English unit: ‘Exploring the Speculative’
The New South Wales Department of Education has featured episodes of the comedy-horror series Crazy Fun Park in resources designed for the Year 9, Term 4 program 'Exploring the Speculative'.
June 13th 2024
ACTF welcomes additional funding and new Board member
It has been an eventful month for the Australian Children’s Television Foundation (ACTF) with the announcement of additional funding, a meeting with the federal Minister for the Arts, and a new Board member appointed by the Federal Government.