Screen Well was inundated with more than 200 applications for a recent Matchbox Pictures’ production job-sharing pilot scheme, but managed to place just one role.
Screen leaders have outsize influence on industry workplace culture, with producers the most influential of all. Yet the vast majority have received no leadership or people management training, according to new research.
By making considered changes to
workplace practices, could the screen
industry improve mental health
and wellbeing outcomes? Are there
smarter, safer and more sustainable
and innovative ways of making content?
Screen Well is set to run a job-sharing pilot aimed at creating a new pathway for screen workers to enter or return to the industry, upskill, and enhance their work/life balance.
Venn and Screen Well have joined forces on a research project to examine on set leadership and culture, and how it impacts mental health and wellbeing. Venn managing director Jonathon Dutton shares some of the preliminary findings.
Screenworks' Regional to Global Screen Forum is set to go behind the scenes of Stan's 'Black Snow', while executives from Netflix, Stan and SBS will share what they're looking to be pitched.
On set leadership and culture, and how it impacts mental health and wellbeing, will be the focus of a new research project between Venn, a production and consultancy group, and social enterprise Screen Well.