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.
The Australian screen industry has more potential to “go global” than is currently being realised, according to ABC managing director Michelle Guthrie.
Screen Producers Australia has named Matchbox Pictures the Production Business of the Year at its annual awards, held last night at the Forum Theatre in Melbourne.
A “resentful, mendicant” model is developing between the screen industry and government, according to Screen Producers Australia CEO Matthew Deaner.
The last financial year saw the amount spent on drama production in Australia crack $1 billion for the first time, thanks in part to record levels of foreign project spend and bolstered local feature film production.
The Senate inquiry into the economic and cultural value of Australian content on broadcast TV, streaming services and radio is motivated partly by fears the government could ditch local content quotas without parliament’s approval.