Screen Australia has updated its games funding, replacing the Games: Expansion Pack with three new opportunities.
Award-winning kids digital content specialist Johanna Egger and long-time developer Morgan Jaffit are the inaugural appointees of the Federal Government's Digital Games Tax Offset Advisory Board.
The Victorian Government has added a $15 million Digital Screen Rebate to its suite of incentives, with grants available to post-production, animation, digital games, and VFX projects that are undertaken within the state with local workers.
National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA) chief curator Gayle Lake has announced she will retire next year after more than a decade with the organisation.
Former Sex Discrimination Commissioner Kate Jenkins will head up the Federal Government's Creative Workplaces Council, a new body designed to help raise and set industry standards across the arts.
The Federal Government is looking for ways to maintain the independence of ABC and SBS while protecting them from future funding cuts, announcing a review into how the national broadcasters can be better supported.
Screen Australia has unveiled the two studios that will share $600,000 through its First Nations Games Studio Fund, while also announcing $2.4 million for 21 games as part of the Games: Expansion Pack.
‘We owe it to Australians’: Bryan Brown takes streaming regulation debate to the National Press Club
He's already succeeded in helping to keep the Producer Offset at 40 per cent for theatrical features and now actor Bryan Brown hopes to exert a similar influence in the discussion about streaming regulation, fronting the National Press Club today to push for a 20 per cent local content obligation on the major services.