Haslingden will step down as chairman and non-executive director at Nine Entertainment Company and be replaced by Peter Costello, currently an independent, non-executive director.
The findings and a screen industry action plan will be launched at a cultural roundtable and showcase event in Canberra on June 21, 2016.
"Women creatives and voices are vastly underrepresented in screen storytelling and we need to address this issue front on", the company said in a statement.
Starring Guy Pearce and Radha Mitchell, Flammable Children will start pre-production in Queensland in mid-August and begin shooting in early October.
Cathrine McVeigh is Essential's new Head of Production, while Mike Adams of Barnett Law has joined as Head of Legal and Commercial Affairs.
Palace Cinemas has launched a new film festival to be run in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra after forming a partnership with Toronto-based Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.
Jones' screenwriting credits include Angela’s Ashes, Possession, A Thousand Acres, Oscar and Lucinda, The Portrait of a Lady, An Angel at My Table, Hightide and Brick Lane.
After toiling away in a warehouse in East Brunswick, filmmaker Oscar Raby's work, developed in collaboration with the BBC’s Research & Development team, will premiere at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival’s Storyscapes Exhibition.