Industry guilds and the free-to-air broadcasters alike have expressed dismay over the Federal Government's move late last week to extend the Post, Digital and Visual (PDV) and Location Offsets to online platforms, arguing the government has missed an opportunity to introduce further policies that could benefit the local industry.
Australia's struggling post-production sector has received a boost in the 2011 Federal Budget
Offshore producers who want to take advantage of the federal government's $20 million incentive to attract big budget productions to shoot Down Under can start preparing their applications.
The Producer Offset for Australian live action children's drama should be raised to 40 per cent and all platforms including streaming services be mandated to produce or co-fund children’s
content, according to the Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance.
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.
The next instalment in Marvel's 'Thor' franchise, 'Thor: Love and Thunder', helmed by Taika Waititi and set to star Chris Hemsworth and Natalie Portman, will be filmed at Fox Studios in Sydney.
Foxtel has proposed stripping away Screen Australia’s funding for drama and documentary and using the money to cover the costs of raising the Location and TV Producer Offsets.
More than 200 screen industry figures have written an open letter to federal MPs warning that Australian story telling is at risk of being drowned out by overseas content.