Five online creative teams will receive a total of $500,000 in the second round of the Google/Screen Australia talent development initiative Skip Ahead.
Public votes are now open as 50 semi-finalists compete for the $500,000 prize and the chance to work with director Ridley Scott
The sixth iteration of Screen Australia and Google's Skip Ahead initiative, designed to help YouTube creators up the scale of their content, has opened for applications today.
Four YouTube creative teams will share from a pool of $725,000 in funding, thanks to Screen Australia and Google’s joint initiative Skip Ahead.
Lingo Pictures MD Helen Bowden has called on the Federal Government to adopt the model set out in the Screen Australia/ACMA options paper which would require all commercial networks, pay channels and SVOD services to invest a percentage of their revenues in new Australian content.