Australian performers remain in dispute after more than two months with the Screen Producers Association of Australia (SPAA).
The creative industries business manager will replace former director Simon Whipp
The Equity director has stepped down after 12 years
Sue McCreadie has stepped down as director of Actors Equity amid negotiations between the Media Entertainment & Arts Alliance and Screen Producers Australia over two new industrial agreements.
The performers, writers and directors who will participate in Australia’s first Diversity Showcase have been selected by industry judging panels from more than 500 applicants.
Footage from a 1956 Actors Equity protest about the lack of local content quotas and the dominance of foreign production on television, courtesy of Haydn Keenan.
The chorus of voices calling for a review of the process for approving imported actors in Australian taxpayer-funded film and TV productions is growing louder.
Actor Roy Billing launched the campaign calling for the relaxation of restrictions on casting overseas actors in Australian screen productions, and he’s not giving up.