In March last year, Frances McDormand won the Academy Award for Best Actress. In her acceptance speech, she drew attention to the female nominees in the room and left them with two final words: “inclusion rider”.
Screen Queensland has announced a three-year partnership with SBS, Madman Entertainment, The Post Lounge and Media Super to co-produce and co-finance a slate of feature films that feature diverse talent, creatives and stories.
NZ On Air’s fourth Diversity Report shows a more diverse mix of content creators in key TV production roles in New Zealand but there is still under-representation of Asian screen creatives/
Alana Hicks, Grace Feng and Llewellyn Michael Bates will each receive $24,000 to produce a short work thanks to Talent Camp, a joint initiative of AFTRS, Screen Australia and the state screen agencies to bolster emerging talent from diverse backgrounds.
“Unless people with disabilities and in my case, non-normative bodies, become far more visible we will miss out on inspiring young performers with physical differences and achieving inclusion across the board."
When the Casting Guild of Australia named Pallavi Sharda among its 10 Rising Stars of 2017, the recognition was arguably long overdue.
'Oddlands', produced together with Matchbox Pictures, sees Back to Back Theatre – which has an ensemble of actors with disabilities – officially branch into filmmaking.
Create NSW and SBS have backed six teams of emerging filmmakers with $180,000 to create shorts which will air next year as part of SBS's coverage of the 40th Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.