Jungle Entertainment CEO Jason Burrows advocates one key structural change if the Australian screen industry is to take full advantage of an expected, post-pandemic boom in demand for scripted content: Treat writers much better.
What needs to be in place to get the sector back to work? And what will production actually look like when things can resume?
Working with remarkable speed, a screen sector task force and Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) CEO Nell Greenwood have completed a draft protocol setting out principles and practices for a return to screen production.
The Yatala Drive-In in South East Queensland is the first cinema in the country to re-open - and business went through the non-existent roof last weekend.
Amid the COVID-19 crisis filmmaker Kriv Stenders alternates between feeling terrified, depressed and positive - but on balance he is extremely optimistic.
The COVID-19 crisis and loss of live sport have taken a heavy toll on Foxtel, resulting in mass redundancies and stand-downs - but Brian Walsh sees several positives for the platform.
Filmmakers Addison Heath and Jasmine Jakupi were two days away from flying to the US to shoot crime comedy An American Masquerade when travel restrictions scuttled that plan.
Faced with the prospect of not going ahead due to COVID-19 social distancing restrictions, St Kilda Film Festival has instead opted to go online.