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.
Since 2014 the Federal Government has made numerous policy decisions that benefited sectional interests such as commercial free-to-air broadcasters, the US studios and local service businesses, while neglecting screen producers.
Screen Producers Australia has announced the 19 emerging producers who will participate in its Ones To Watch mentoring program this year.
Dual campaigns to fight online piracy worldwide and to withstand any weakening of copyright protection in Australia are stepping up.