Industry stakeholders are seeking clarification from the Federal Government about the place of documentary in the incoming streaming regulation, after the genre was omitted in the models proposed in the Targeted Consultation Paper.
Amid the ongoing US Writers’ Strike, Australian Writers’ Guild executive director Claire Pullen reflects on the landscape for writers locally.
If streamers are required to reinvest 20 per cent of their revenue on Australian content, it would deliver $300m towards local projects and 10,000 jobs - and ensure Australians see their country reflected back at them, writes Screen Producers Australia CEO Matthew Deaner.
Screen Producers Australia CEO Matthew Deaner writes that Screen Forever 37 comes at critical period for industry, with robust discussion required.
SPA has again taken the Federal Government to task for its proposed Streaming Services Reporting and Investment Scheme, labelling the next steps in the media reform agenda as "weak" and "lacking in a vision or plan".
"Let’s make no bones about it - this is a disaster."
In the lead up to the federal election, the fight to regulate streaming services looks poised to get noisier: Australian Directors Guild executive director Alaric McAusland told Screen Forever Tuesday that the industry was currently "way too polite" to government on the issue.
The Australian Children's Television Foundation (ACTF) is continuing to work closely with streaming platforms to build a new path for the kids sector, announcing a new partnership with Netflix that will fund the development of two new original Australian children’s series.
Screen Producers Australia CEO Matthew Deaner pulled no punches in his opening address at Screen Forever on Monday, taking aim at the Federal Government for reconfiguring content quotas and providing "slow, protracted and largely ineffective proposals" to ensure global streamers commission Australian titles.