Director Paul Murphy's 'Lowdown Dirty Criminals', a comedy crime caper about two naïve young men searching for a better life, is shooting in Wellington.
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.
Erin Madeley will the next chief executive of the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA), succeeding Paul Murphy.
In a wrap up of its 10th anniversary celebrations on October 18, Cinema des Antipodes presented awards for the six films in competition, with Australian director Nadia Tass (Malcolm, The Big Steal) heading its competition jury.
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 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.
A multi-year funding commitment for the Australian Children's Television Foundation (ACTF) headlined support for the screen industry in Tuesday's Federal Budget.