Screen Producers Australia has released the full line-up for next month's Screen Forever conference, featuring more than 40 sessions conducted under five strands: Breaking Boundaries, Making It Rain, Creative Difference, Keeping it Real, and All Screen Business Begins with a Story.
More than 20 organisations from around the world, including SPA and NZ's SPADA, have signed a joint statement calling on governments to require global streamers such as Netflix and Prime Video to make "fair and proportional" contributions to local content in the markets in which they operate.
The NSW Government has vowed to give the state's screen agency greater independence and develop a business case for a second major film studio as part of its new ten-year cultural policy unveiled this week.
Goalpost Pictures' Kylie Munnich will serve as a Screen Producers Australia councillor for 2023/24, while Greg Woods, Kevin Whyte, Kurt Royan, Mitchell Stanley, and Steph Dower have been named advisors to council, following the organisation's annual general meeting.
Former Triple J presenter Alex Dyson and Gold Logie winner Lisa McCune are among the Screen Producer Australia members that have secured a pitch with commissioning executives from Apple TV+, Foxtel, and Warner Bros. Discovery as part of Pitch on Demand.
Screen Producers Australia (SPA) has partnered with Netflix to launch Broad Horizons, a new initiative designed to increase access and opportunities for First Nations screen professionals.
'Carmen', 'Foe', 'Limbo', 'Shayda', 'Streets of Colour' and 'The Royal Hotel' will contend for Feature Film Production of the Year at next year's Screen Producers Australia Awards, to be held on the final night of Screen Forever on the Gold Coast.
Industry stakeholders are seeking clarification from the Federal Government about the place of documentary in the incoming streaming regulation, after the genre was omitted in the models proposed in the Targeted Consultation Paper.