President and CEO of Canada’s Shaw Rocket Fund Agnes Augustin will speak about funding children’s content at Screen Producers Australia’s Screen Forever Conference.
The 2017 calendar year saw the independent screen production sector generate $1.2 billion in production revenue, export $163 million and support around 20,000 jobs. However, more than one in five companies reported a loss and another half only small profit. Almost one in 10 businesses report they are worried about staying afloat over the next five years.
Screen Producers Australia (SPA) has hit back at the commercial broadcasters for continuing to use second-run New Zealand content to help meet local content quotas, and made a renewed call for government to put an end to the practice.
Elle Curran has been appointed director, legal and business affairs at Screen Producers Australia.
Are feature film producers who want to be better remunerated during the five years they typically spend developing each project prepared to see Screen Australia slash the number of projects it develops to fund higher fees?
After 25 years as an actor Rachel Griffiths made a discovery which shocked her while negotiating her fee to produce her first film, the Michelle Payne biopic 'Ride Like a Girl': Most feature producers get paid peanuts.
That the Producer Offset be adjusted to 30 per cent for all qualifying productions, regardless of platform, is among the key recommendations to come out of the parliamentary inquiry into the growth and sustainability of the screen industry.
“I agree about not rushing into production until your script is pitch perfect but the agencies must recognise that unless you have Enterprise support (I never have), there is almost no support for producers to do this,” Maslin tells IF.