Why risk precious funding on an original screenplay when a novelist has already done half the job for you?
Screen Australia's executive director, Production Support & Investment, Chris Fitchett, will leave the agency on 5 December 2008 to pursue his own projects.
Producer Tristram Miall is to play a key role in all feature decisions and a gang of six will also have input into investment offers
The documentary industry has rejected a suggestion by Screen Australia to raise the Producer Offset threshold in exchange for increasing direct funding
NSW has secured a new feature film, touted as an Aussie version of The Hangover
Screen Australia has warned that the industry is facing a sharp fall in feature film expenditure this financial year due to fewer planned big-budget local and foreign productions
Screen Australia boss Ruth Harley says the market for art house films remains flat despite a recovery in overall film sales
Screen Australia boss Ruth Harley rejects Senate queries about a shift to the PC platform instead of Mac