From left are Werner Film Productions director Joanna Werner, Matchbox Pictures managing director Alastair McKinnon, and Goalpost Pictures joint-CEOs Rosemary Blight and Kylie du Fresne.

‘In many ways, we now have a new normal’: Goalpost, Matchbox, and Werner Film Productions on surviving in 25

Throughout last year, it wasn’t uncommon to hear ‘Survive till 25’ being touted as the new motto for producers across various markets.

On a global level, producers navigated the aftereffects of the actor and writer strikes in an already contracting industry characterised by risk aversion.

In Australia, the much-anticipated content quotas failed to materialise by the July 1 deadline outlined in the Government’s National Cultural Policy and remain in limbo four months out from the Federal Election.

So whe...