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.
Amid the COVID-19 crisis filmmaker Kriv Stenders alternates between feeling terrified, depressed and positive - but on balance he is extremely optimistic.
Nick Boshier, Anthony MacFarlane and Jarod Green are developing a long-form series of their animated comedy 'Beached Az'.
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted 70 productions which the ABC has commissioned from a total of 50 independent producers, according to MD David Anderson.
See-Saw Films' Emile Sherman identifies the worldwide exclusion of COVID-19 from insurance cover as the biggest issue facing the film and television industry - and that's a problem for completion bond company Film Finances Australia.
Screen Producers Australia has canvassed the pluses and minuses of two of the models set out out in 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.
The Seven, Nine and 10 networks insist they are not stockpiling Australian dramas and other local programming despite the suspension of the local content quotas for the rest of this year.