Veteran actor Bruce Spence is the newest recipient of the Equity Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award, to be announced at an awards ceremony in Sydney later this year.
Screen Australia and VicScreen will put $1.4 million across the next four years to support industry-led training programs and skills development opportunities for below-the-line crew via a new not-for-profit organisation.
Screen Australia and the Australian Writers' Guild have selected Thomas Duncan-Watt, Vanessa Gazy, Sarah Lambert, Leah Purcell, Giula Sandler, and Alexa Wyatt for the second edition of The Creators accelerator program.
SPA and Netflix have announced the successful applicants of the inaugural Broad Horizons initiative, which is designed to increase access and opportunities for First Nations screen professionals.
Every Cloud Productions founders Deb Cox and Fiona Eagger will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at next week's SPA Awards, to be held on the final night of Screen Forever on the Gold Coast.
The Western Australian government will put almost $19 million into the state's screen industry to attract international and domestic production and boost skills capacity.
Content executive Natalie Robinson-Hurst has joined AFTRS as head of production, with the institution also announcing six new discipline lead roles.
Former Stan chief content officer Nick Forward has been appointed to the VicScreen board.