Producer, writer, and editor Stephanie Dower is Screen Producers Australia (SPA)'s Leadership Diversity Mentorship participant for 2023.
Screen Producers Australia will partner with the British Film Institute to create new global opportunities for film and television producers at this year's Screen Forever.
Screen Producers Australia has confirmed the mentors for its Ones To Watch program, with some of Australia's leading producers set to lend their expertise to the 2022 cohort.
Screen Producers Australia has introduced a new e-learning course designed to reduce the instances of harassment, discrimination, and bullying in the screen industry.
ACMA data showing five of the major SVODs – Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, Netflix, Paramount+, and Stan – spent $335.1 million in 2021/22 on Australian programming demonstrates the viability of 20 per cent local content obligation for streamers, SPA says.
Screen Producers Australia has announced the producers whose Pitch On Demand submissions have secured them a pitch meeting with one or more of the commissioning executives from Binge, Paramount+ or Stan.
12 producers were selected who are passionate about creating screen stories based on First Nations families, extraordinary life stories, off-beat edgy comedies, LGBTQIA+ narratives, female empowerment, and diverse expression.
Both Amazon and Netflix have welcomed the prospect of consulting with the Federal Government on a formal investment obligation in their National Cultural Policy submissions, but called for a "broad and flexible" definition of Australian content.