The finalists for this Screen Producers Australia Business Awards have been announced, with 17 companies contending four categories.
Screen Producers Australia (SPA) has selected Wise Goat Productions' Tsu Shan Chambers and Noble Savage Pictures' Hayley Johnson as inaugural participants of its Leadership Diversity Mentorship program.
The Federal Government has committed $4.2 billion in funding for the public broadcasters over the next three years, while concurrently outlining the next steps in its media reform agenda.
Australians in Film and Screen Australia have revealed the mentor and masterclass lineups for this year's Untapped initiative, which returns after being launched in 2021.
British producers Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen and Amazon Studios executive Erika North have joined the lineup for March's Screen Forever.
Screen Producers Australia is urging the government to further extend the Temporary Interruption Fund (TIF) scheme in order to provide cover for productions in a post-lockdown climate.
The Netflix executive responsible for bringing South Korean phenomenon Squid Game to screens has joined Screen Forever as a keynote speaker.
It's no secret that Australia experienced a significant production boom during the 2020-21 financial year, but Screen Australia has finally crunched the numbers to reveal a record $1.9 billion was spent on drama production across the period.