Screen Producers Australia (SPA) will welcome back representatives from Apple TV+, Foxtel Group, and Warner Bros. Discovery ANZ for this year's Pitch On Demand initiative.
Screen Producers Australia CEO Matthew Deaner has warned that Australia's screen industry risks going forward as a "service provider for Hollywood productions" instead of growing its own storytelling capabilities after legislation to boost the Location Offset passed through parliament last week with still no update government's plan for streaming quotas.
The body representing US studios and streaming platforms, ANZSA, says the Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement (AUSFTA) should prevent the government from imposing a content quota based on 20 per cent of streaming platform's revenue.
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.