Screen Australia CEO Graeme Mason challenges Screen Producers Australia's claims that the Federal Government's media reforms will slash TV drama and children's production by up to 50 per cent and cost thousands of jobs.
Northern Pictures’ 'Hardball' has snared an International Emmy Kids Award, taking home the prize in the Kids: Live-Action category.
While Screen Australia reports that 57 per cent of all key creatives to receive production and development funding last year were women or female-identifying people, new industry-wide data suggests bolstering women's participation more broadly is a slow road.
"I certainly don't buy in... to the idea that the sky has fallen or the world is over. There is still a lot of government support."
Premiering Tuesday 10 November on SBS, Blackfella Films' 'Addicted Australia' provides extraordinary access to ten Australians and their families as they battle addiction. Signed up to a unique six-month treatment program, the four-part documentary series follows their heart-wrenching journey from despair to hope and possible recovery.
A third season of Australia's most popular children's series, ABC/Ludo Studio's 'Bluey', is set to commence production in Brisbane later this year.
Writer and creator Enoch Mailangi's five-part series 'All My Friends Are Racist' is set to go into production for ABC iview in November.
In a major overhaul of the regulatory system, the Federal Government is scrapping the fixed quotas for local drama, children's programming and documentary and harmonising the film and TV Producer Offsets at 30 per cent.