“As an industry we have to constantly go to government with cap-in-hand, seeking to be recognised," 'The Doctor Blake Mysteries' star tells IF.
Competition for Screen Producers Australia’s best feature film award looks fierce this year with eight titles including 'Ali’s Wedding', 'Don’t Tell', 'Lion' and 'The Butterfly Tree' among the finalists.
The groundswell of support for the Australian screen industry’s Make it Australian campaign grows by the day.
Screen Producers Australia (SPA) has commissioned a short film from Ludo Studio to further its campaign to protect children’s content.
Key organisations from across the screen industry have made a united and formal commitment to work towards building a more inclusive sector.
Calls by the Seven, Nine and Ten networks to scrap the quotas for children’s and pre-school programming have been roundly condemned by key screen industry groups and guilds.
Screen Producers Australia CEO Matt Deaner has warned there is a risk small independent production businesses will suffer from a continuing shift to vertically integrated platforms that produce content in-house.
The past four years have seen the ABC’s commissioning budgets for adult drama and children’s content drop around 20 per cent each, according to new data released via Senate Estimates.