The Australian screen industry can brace itself for yet another Canberra-led inquiry, this time from the Senate Standing Committee on Environment and Communications.
In this wrap: The late Cris Jones and C.S. McMullen win AWG’s John Hinde Awards; WA writer wins PAGE International Screenwriting Award; Melbourne scribe wins in Austin Film Festival script competition.
The Australian Writers' Guild has formed the Diversity and Inclusion Action Committee which will consult and advise with the guild on all aspects of the AWG’s diversity program.
Ryan Griffen, Greg Waters, Yolanda Ramke and Samantha Lang are among the 16 practitioners who have been selected to travel to LA as part of Screen Australia/the Australian Writers’ Guild's Talent USA contingent.
After more than two and a half years, the Australian Writers’ Guild Authorship Collecting Society (AWGACS), Australian Writers’ Guild and Screenrights have settled their Federal Court dispute.
Shane Brennan has been elected the president of the Australian Writers' Guild (AWG), succeeding Jan Sardi.
"There is no shortage of original ideas and top-class writers in Australia. Only a shortage of willingness to develop them and their ideas properly. Cautious and cynical production and programming are increasingly the order of the day."
Industry guilds and the free-to-air broadcasters alike have expressed dismay over the Federal Government's move late last week to extend the Post, Digital and Visual (PDV) and Location Offsets to online platforms, arguing the government has missed an opportunity to introduce further policies that could benefit the local industry.