The groundswell of support for the Australian screen industry’s Make it Australian campaign grows by the day.
“Ever since I started with John Clarke when I was 24, the only breaks I’ve had have been for health or my wife abusing me [to take a break]. I’ve just gone from one project to another and it’s quite a privilege.”I’ve just gone from one project to another and it’s quite a privilege.”
Calls by the Seven, Nine and Ten networks to scrap the quotas for children’s and pre-school programming have been roundly condemned by key screen industry groups and guilds.
In a David and Goliath battle, the screenplays for Ben Young’s debut feature Hounds of Love and Mel Gibson’s Hacksaw Ridge will compete for the original feature film prize at this year’s AWGIE Awards.
Michael Miller, co-writer of the ABC's 'Cleverman', has won the $10,000 Australian Writers' Guild's 2016 John Hinde Award for Science Fiction.
One of Australia’s most successful screenwriters, Craig Pearce, has bee presented the Australian Writers' Guild's 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award.
Jones has worked with Gillian Armstrong on High Tide and Oscar and Lucinda, with Jane Campion on An Angel at My Table and A Portrait of a Lady, with Samantha Lang on The Well and with Jocelyn Moorhouse on A Thousand Acres.
“The Productivity Commission seems to be recommending that broadcasters and distributors continue to make money by exploiting the intellectual property in film and TV shows while the creators of these works should be stripped of their rights to be paid"