Screen composers' declining television copyright income is being caused by falling advertising across the free-to-air sector, a lack of content quotas, and streaming platform's onerous contracts.
Production designer and federal president of MEAA’s Entertainment, Crew and Sport section Fiona Donovan has joined the Australian Film, Television, and Radio School (AFTRS) Council.
Ausfilm says four offshore projects are in early pre-production but the Location Offset needs to be legislated.
The time has come for governments to differentiate between the creative industries and other sectors regarding the impact of AI, Australian Writers' Guild (AWG) president Claire Pullen says.
The Federal Government has named children's entertainer Simon Pryce Commonwealth representative to the Australian Children's Television Foundation (ACTF) Board for a three-year term.
Screen Producers Australia (SPA) CEO Matthew Deaner didn't mince words at Tuesday's public hearing into the National Cultural Policy in Canberra, telling a Senate Committee that some streaming businesses had been promoting misleading information about the policy to Parliament.
There is confidence within the documentary sector that its concerns about the genre's omission from last year's streaming regulation models have been heard ahead of the legislation's introduction to parliament.
Remaining flexible and adapting to the needs of practitioners amid broader industry changes are among the chief concerns for Screen Australia when it comes to ongoing capacity building, industry development head Ken Crouch says.