The heartwarming family feature film RUNT starring Jai Courtney and Celeste Barber will have its world premiere in Melbourne this weekend, before opening in cinemas across Australia this September.

It has been a busy first half of the year for the sales team, with the ACTF catalogue of new and award-winning programs in high demand.

“The Office, set in the playground,” is how creators described Little Lunch in the lead up to its launch. A heart-warming series that takes place during the 15-minute primary school morning tea break, Little Lunch broke new ground by using mockumentary format in Australian children's television for the first time.

The ACTF international sales team is pleased to announce that the high adrenaline live-action series MaveriX is now available for acquisition by linear broadcasters worldwide. Until recently, all international rights for MaveriX were held exclusively by Netflix, but with the expiry of their holdback, the linear TV rights are now available. MaveriX is the exhilarating story of a group of teenage motorcross riders, set against the spectacular backdrop of Australia’s red centre. It follows...

A landmark book adaptation from an Oscar-winning team will soon be added to the ACTF catalogue, while a brand-new season of a beloved preschool animation is now available for presale.  A television adaptation of Shaun Tan’s bestselling illustrated anthology Tales from Outer Suburbia is currently in production, thanks to major production support from the Australian Children’s Television Foundation and Screen Australia in association with Australian broadcaster the ABC. The 10 x...

A heartwarming live-action family film and an animated preschool series about friendship and kindness are now available to acquire from the growing ACTF catalogue. Windcatcher Windcatcher follows the unlikely friendship between Percy Boy, newcomer Keithy Cobb and the spirited Daisy Hawkins, as they band together to take the local school sports day title from a group of grade five bullies in their small country town. But as Percy Boy trains with the help of his mates, he then discovers his s...

It’s been a busy first half of the year for the sales team with the ACTF catalogue of new and award-winning programs in high demand. BYU TV (USA) picked up Gristmill’s award-winning, live-action comedy favourites Little Lunch and The InBestigators, securing US Free TV rights for both hugely popular series. RTE (Ireland) is the first international broadcaster to acquire Windcatcher, the heartwarming family feature film which premiered in Australia on local SVOD platform Stan in Marc...

Do your students know the story of 'Mina' Wylie, one of our first female Olympians?

Our latest resource provides sequenced learning tasks to complement and extend a class or cohort screening of the feature film, Windcatcher.

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.