Acclaimed director, writer, producer, and Head of Factual at Northern Pictures, Karina Holden is the recipient of the 2021 Sydney UNESCO City of Film Award, announced at the Closing Night of the 68th Sydney Film Festival.

Love on the Spectrum and Strong Female Lead have been nominated at the prestigious 60th annual Rose d’Or Awards.

Northern Pictures have been nominated for four awards at this year’s AACTA Awards: Strong Female Lead – Best Documentary; Love on the Spectrum (Season 2) – Best Factual Entertainment Program; Love on the Spectrum (Season 2) – Best Direction in Nonfiction Television (Cian O’Clery); and Hardball (Season 2) – Best Children’s Program.

After The Wildfires has won Best Environmental Film at the 2021 Newport Beach Film Festival

Love on the Spectrum has won a Gold medal in the Documentary (Human Concerns) category, at this year’s New York Festivals.

After The Wildfires has won Best Conservation Film at the 2021 Jackson Hole Media Awards. Nature film’s equivalent to the Oscars®, the Jackson Wild Media Awards™ celebrate excellence and innovation in nature, science and conservation storytelling.

See What You Made Me Do is one of six outstanding documentaries have been longlisted for the 2021 Walkley Documentary Award. All six films tackle different themes, are in different styles and highlight different modes of documentary storytelling, but all help to showcase the very best in Australian long-form journalism.

Strong Female Lead is in competition for the Documentary Australia Foundation (DAF) Award for Australian Documentary at this year’s Sydney Film Festival.

Tom Weekly Versus…, a 20-part live-action series for ViacomCBS based on the best-selling book series by Tristan Bancks, has received Screen Australia funding.

Strong Female Lead nominated for Best Documentary at the 2021 AACTA Awards

Love on the Spectrum wins Best Relationship Show at the 2021 Critics Choice TV Awards.

Love on the Spectrum has won Best Lifestyle Program at the 2021 BANFF Rockies.

Award-winning filmmaker Daniel King has been named the inaugural recipient of the Indigenous Documentary Placement, a new initiative co-presented by the ABC, Northern Pictures and the Australian Documentary Conference (AIDC) to fast-track the careers of Indigenous nonfiction screen practitioners.

After an Emmy win and both local and international success with Hardball, Northern Pictures is developing a new children’s project with one of its co-creators, Guy Edmonds.

Northern Pictures is co-developing a live-action teen show Dance Spies with Canadian prodco Sinking Ships.

Jess Hill has spent the past seven years reporting on domestic abuse, recognised for her book See What You Made Me Do. This month sees the release of a three-part docuseries bearing the same name. She writes here about why it’s crucial for Australia to criminalise coercive control and how we can harness positive change seen overseas.

Reading the book was harrowing, upsetting, yet critical, and as Lucy Clark writes in The Guardian, “…seeing it brought to life on the screen, with the raw power of people talking to camera, adds a gripping, heart-in-mouth dimension.”

See What You Made Me Do makes for confronting viewing — it is a problem that involves people all around us in the community. As Hill tells us, there are three million Australian adults and children who are victims of domestic abuse.

Spreadsheet is a new Sex And The City-style comedy starting filming in Melbourne soon. The eight part comedy, Spreadsheet, has been commissioned by Network 10, and its US owners, broadcasting giant Viacom CBS. The show centres around Lauren, a divorced mother-of-two and corporate high flyer, played by British actor Katherine Parkinson, who uses a database to help with her sex life.

There are dating shows. And then there’s Love on the Spectrum, a series (returning here for a second season) that completely rewrites the rulebook on the genre, and creates sensational television in the process.