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Children’s Drama series First Day has captured the attention of media and reviewers overseas since its recent release on Hulu (USA) and CBBC (UK).  This overview from the Australian Children’s [...]

Our four-part Australian children’s drama series First Day will now reach audiences in the United States, after being bought by Disney-owned streaming service Hulu. US audiences can stream the [...]

The BBC has taken UK rights to our children’s drama series, First Day.  Starring Evie Macdonald, the four-part series expands on the story of Hannah Bradford, a 12-year-old transgender girl who [...]

Our new children’s drama series, First Day, launches today on ABC ME and ABC iview. Airing daily this week at 4.30pm, the 4x 24-minute episode series follows Hannah Bradford’s first year of high [...]

Epic Films producer Kirsty Stark has spent the past year working as a co-producer on Matchbox Pictures’ 6 part drama series Stateless for the ABC. Stateless tells the story of four strangers [...]

Our new children’s series, First Day, began filming in Adelaide yesterday. Written and directed by Julie Kalceff, the series is a spin-off of the stand-alone episode we created for the ABC [...]

First Day has won the MIPCOM Diversify TV Award for Kids Programming (all genres) at an awards ceremony in Cannes overnight. It was one of only three programmes from around the world to be [...]

First Day has been awarded Best Fictional Children’s Series at FAN CHILE – a television festival where the winning shows are judged by children from all over Chile. We’re [...]

Epic Films will be partnering with Matchbox Pictures for the next two years, with Epic Producer Kirsty Stark to run the company’s South Australian office as Development Producer. The aim of [...]

First Day has won the Gender Equity Prize at the prestigious Prix Jeunesse International Children’s Television Festival, and been awarded second place in the 7-10 Year Fiction category, behind [...]