Working with remarkable speed, a screen sector task force and Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) CEO Nell Greenwood have completed a draft protocol setting out principles and practices for a return to screen production.
Screen Australia has assured producers that all the production funds for 'At Home Alone Together' will go direct to the writers, performers and production teams whose concepts are commissioned for the eight-part ABC comedy.
In response to the coronavirus pandemic, ABC and Screen Australia have partnered in a comedy initiative designed to culminate in eight-part series 'At Home Alone Together'.
Writer Anna Barnes and director Meg O'Connell's vertical murder mystery series 'Apollo' has been selected for development under the Snapchat and Screen Australia initiative.
Panthers and pumas are alive and well in the Australian bush and big cat expert Vaughan King is on a quest to prove it. The former big cat keeper at Australia Zoo has teamed up with veteran researchers John Turner and Simon Townsend to investigate recent sightings of these elusive predators. Their aim is to prove the existence of a living population of big cats in the Australian bush, creatures whom authorities deny exist.
Screen Producers Australia has canvassed the pluses and minuses of two of the models set out out in the Screen Australia/ACMA options paper.
Hoodlum Entertainment chair Deanne Weir calls on the screen industry to restate the case for regulation which protects Australian storytelling in response to the Screen Australia/ACMA options paper.
Lingo Pictures MD Helen Bowden has called on the Federal Government to adopt the model set out in the Screen Australia/ACMA options paper which would require all commercial networks, pay channels and SVOD services to invest a percentage of their revenues in new Australian content.