Film Victoria CEO Jenni Tosi today urged the screen industry guilds to take the lead to devise a comprehensive plan to "sell" to the federal government before the 2016 election.
Virginia Trioli hosted Film Victoria’s Jenni Tosi, Screen NSW’s Courtney Gibson, Screen Australia’s Documentary Senior Manager Liz Stevens, ABC Head of Factual Steve Bibb and SBS’s Head of Documentaries John Godfrey in a panel discussion.
The strategy outlines key actions to directly benefit Victoria's games, television and film industries.
HRAFF program director Malcolm Blaylock called the film "one of the most important Australian documentaries of 2016."
Created by Lost's Damon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta based on Perrotta’s best-selling novel of the same name, The Leftovers is the largest international television production deal since Childhood’s End was shot in early 2015.
Minister for Creative Industries Martin Foley met the cast and crew and toured the set with Butler and Hope.
The initiative aims to secure a pipeline of TV titles into the state over the next two years and will deliver an estimated $80 million in production expenditure to the state, Film Victoria said in a statement.
Seventeen film, TV, online and documentary projects will share in over $2.4 million in funding, thanks to the latest round of Film Victoria's Assigned Production Investment program and the Victorian Content Initiative.