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.
Arenamedia and a broad coalition of industry players have called on the Federal Government to create an Innovation Fund to support new and emerging talent and diverse creative voices.
Netflix has acquired global streaming rights to Northern Pictures' 'Love on the Spectrum', the ABC-commissioned docuseries which follows seven young adults on the autism spectrum as take their first steps into the world of dating.
The Australian Guild of Screen Composers has urged the Federal Government to impose a levy of at least 1 per cent on the combined advertising revenues generated in Australia by the tech giants including Facebook and Google/YouTube.
SPA has called on the Federal Government to set a growth target for the Australian screen industry - one that would see the production of Australian content, rate of employment and size of the industry double within five years.
All Australian screen industry guilds, Screen Producers Australia and bodies including Women in Film and Television Australia have made a joint submission to the government’s ‘Supporting Australian Stories on Our Screens’ options reviewr.
The ABC should get at least $40 million to commission and produce children’s content each year and SBS $20 million for children’s and youth content, according to the Australian Children's Television Foundation.
Breaking ranks with Screen Producers Australia, the Australian Directors' Guild opposes two of SPA's key policy proposals as well as making the case to rename the Producer Offset as the Creative Offset.