Screen Producers Australia (SPA) believes the screen industry's new entrants and smaller operations are at risk of being squeezed out by unsustainable financial pressures, following a member survey showing producers are increasingly being asked to bear the monetary and creative burden of project development.
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TV executive Julie Eckersley and media and finance scholar Dr. Austin Hayden have called on the TV production industry to embrace indie filmmaking techniques and prioritise development and audience engagement to stay competitive.
The filmmakers behind low-budget thriller 'Dark Noise' have settled their long-running case against Screen Australia's decision to reject their Producer Offset application.
Screen Australia's decision to quash the Producer Offset application by the team behind horror-thriller 'Fragmentary' has raised questions about a common shooting method used by documentary filmmakers.
The Oscar-winning film starring Geoffrey Rush was originally rejected by the sales agent employed by the government's screen agency.
Screenwest and National Indigenous Television (NITV) have announced that production will commence on a ten-part series, Big Backyard Quiz following the success of its pilot episode in July.
Streamer content spend will edge just four per cent higher across the Asia-Pacific over the next four years after countries in the region have launched a range of new screen incentives, according to a report.
The Federal government says it is continuing to consult with industry a year after it released proposed models for streaming platforms local content quotas and more than three months after it missed its own July 1 deadline to put a quota in place.