ABC head of scripted production Sally Riley is an early winner of this year's Screen Producer Australia Awards, named the inaugural Commissioner of the Year.
The Federal Government has committed to a staged process of media regulation reform, ultimately culminating in what it hopes will be "platform-neutral regulatory framework covering both online and offline delivery of media content."
Both SPA and the ADG have identified the potential for a "production void" if there is a prolonged delay between the government's relaxation of local content quotas for commercial free-to-air broadcasters and any imposition of obligations on streamers.
Morrissey Management's First Option Pictures expects to announce its first three projects - all TV series - in the next few weeks.
Paper Planes Productions president Alon Aranya talks to IF about his company’s global strategy and why he is looking to grow its Australian footprint.
‘We owe it to Australians’: Bryan Brown takes streaming regulation debate to the National Press Club
He's already succeeded in helping to keep the Producer Offset at 40 per cent for theatrical features and now actor Bryan Brown hopes to exert a similar influence in the discussion about streaming regulation, fronting the National Press Club today to push for a 20 per cent local content obligation on the major services.
Amid the COVID-19 crisis filmmaker Kriv Stenders alternates between feeling terrified, depressed and positive - but on balance he is extremely optimistic.
Financial support from the Federal Government for the hundreds of thousands of screen industry practitioners who lost their jobs during the pandemic could be imminent.