Erin Madeley will the next chief executive of the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA), succeeding Paul Murphy.
A multi-year funding commitment for the Australian Children's Television Foundation (ACTF) headlined support for the screen industry in Tuesday's Federal Budget.
Two Australian documentaries, Robert Coe and Warwick Ross' 'Blind Ambition' and Eddie Martin's 'The Kids', will make their world premiere in competition at Tribeca Film Festival in June.
A delegation of actors, crew, writers, and producers converged on Canberra this week to push for local content requirements for SVOD and AVOD platforms, as well as other reforms relating to the screen sector.
The streaming giants would be forced to spend on Australian content, the commercial broadcasters offered a new licence system, and the role of the ABC and SBS in producing local programming formalised, if policies outlined in a new green paper from the Federal Government are adopted.
'Lowdown Dirty Criminals' follows two naïve young men who are in search of a better life, encountering unsavoury situations and people along the way. Freddy (James Rolleston) and Marvin (Samuel Austin) have their sights set on a future filled with “monies and honeys”, believing that a life of crime and debauchery will get them there.
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 is being pressured by the Federal Government to ask staff to forgo for six months a 2 per cent pay rise which was due to come into effect in October.