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Felix Media will be the first screen-based business to move into Carriageworks, the multi-media arts precinct in inner Sydney.

John Maynard and Bridget Ikin.s production banner is joining two other new resident companies, the Sydney Chamber Orchestra and Aboriginal theatre troupe Moogahlin, in November. Felix Media.s multi-media works include Lynette Wallworth.s full dome presentation Coral, Angelica Mesiti.s Citizen.s Band, The Calling, The Begin-Again and In the Ear of the Tyrant, and John Weiley.s documentary marking the 40th anniversary of the Sydney Opera House, The Dream of Perfection/Autopsy on a Dream.

Next year Felix is partnering with the Adelaide Film Festival, the University of Western Australia.s Cultural Precinct and Carriageworks on Char Soo, Adelaide-based artist Hossein Valamanesh.s four-screen work set in a street market in Iran.

Carriageworks Director Lisa Havilah said: .Carriageworks is dedicated to championing ambitious and risk-taking, artist-led programming. The...

Screen Australia has invested almost $750,000 across five one-off documentary projects.

The projects, which will trigger over $2.1 million in production, include 10 Days That Shocked the Nation, an online Sbs documentary which will tells the story of the events that occurred in the lead-up to and consequent Cronulla Riots, and Canberra Confidential, an ABC program which uncovers a century of secrets from inside the nation.s capital.

Screen Australia.s documentary Manager Liz Stevens said: .Both these documentaries will make a significant contribution to the national dialogue. 10 Days That Shocked the Nation joins other recent Ndp-funded award-winning online properties Big Stories, Small Towns and Asylum: Exit Australia. Canberra Confidential will be broadcast to coincide with Canberra.s Centenary in early 2013..

The projects also include biographical film, Peter Sculthorpe, A Journey Through My Life, about one of the world.s greatest living composers. Writer/director Gregor Jordon.s Ian Thorpe: The Swimmer...

An ABC documentary about Olympic swimmer Ian Thorpe directed by Gregor Jordan is one of the films to receive funding from Screen Australia.

Jordan, who directed Ned Kelly and Two Hands, followed Thorpe as the swimmer made his failed comeback for the 2012 London Olympics.

The project, Ian Thorpe: The Swimmer is produced for the ABC by Jordan Helen Panckhurst, Michael Hilliard, Simone Kessell and executive producer Rob Galluzzo.

Five documentaries have received funding from the national screen agency, two from the National Documentary Program and three from the General Documentary Program.

The $750,000 investment is expected to trigger $2.1m in production.

Also slated for funding is 10 Days That Shocked The Nation, about the 2005 Cronulla riots, to be broadcast on Sbs Online; the life story of music composer Peter Sculthorpe for the ABC; 1960s pop artist Martin Sharp called The Sharp End; and Canberra Confidential – a hundred years inside the nation’s capital.