Australian children's content and the National Film and Sound Archive both received funding boosts in last night's Federal Budget, with the government also announcing the removal of the cap on 'above the line' costs for the Producer Offset from July 1.
The newly acquired Werner Film Production scored a hat-trick of wins and Origma 45's 'Shayda' and See-Saw Films' 'The Royal Hotel' shared Feature Film Production of the Year honours as the Screen Producers Australia (SPA) Awards were held on the Gold Coast on Thursday evening.
The unique cultural perspective of Australian screen stories can be a sales asset in the global marketplace but only when content strikes universal themes, according to speakers at a Screen Forever conference panel.
Producer of International Emmy Award-winning documentary 'Harley & Katya' Aaliyah-Jade Bradbury is among the Broad Horizons cohort of First Nations screen professionals selected by Screen Producers Australia and Netflix to attend Screen Forever. She talks to IF.
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.
Ahead of his trip Down Under for Screen Forever, Invention Studios president and founder Nicholas Weinstock - EP of AppleTV+'s 'Severance' - talks to IF about his company’s global remit and Aussie projects, his unique pathway to a producing career, and his online network for emerging writers and directors, Craft Services.
IF chats with the producers who will be on the ground at Screen Forever via the Ireland Connect delegation, and asks what they want in Aussie co-production partners.
We get advice about navigating Screen Forever from Donna Andrews, CEO of Sticky Pictures, and Julia Redwood, owner and MD of Prospero Productions. A top tip: don't follow potential partners into the bathroom to pitch!