The Australian screen industry can brace itself for yet another Canberra-led inquiry, this time from the Senate Standing Committee on Environment and Communications.
“As an industry we have to constantly go to government with cap-in-hand, seeking to be recognised," 'The Doctor Blake Mysteries' star tells IF.
The groundswell of support for the Australian screen industry’s Make it Australian campaign grows by the day.
'Lion'’s Luke Davies and 'Hacksaw Ridge'’s Andrew Knight and Robert Schenkkan have won the major feature film prizes at the AWGIEs, the annual awards presented by the Australian Writers’ Guild.
“Ever since I started with John Clarke when I was 24, the only breaks I’ve had have been for health or my wife abusing me [to take a break]. I’ve just gone from one project to another and it’s quite a privilege.”I’ve just gone from one project to another and it’s quite a privilege.”
Calls by the Seven, Nine and Ten networks to scrap the quotas for children’s and pre-school programming have been roundly condemned by key screen industry groups and guilds.
In a David and Goliath battle, the screenplays for Ben Young’s debut feature Hounds of Love and Mel Gibson’s Hacksaw Ridge will compete for the original feature film prize at this year’s AWGIE Awards.
Entries are open for the Adelaide Film Festival and the Australian Writers’ Guild’s biennial screenwriting development initiative, the INSITE Award – presented to the writer of a screenplay that hasn’t yet secured a producer or funding.