Screen Producers Australia has announced the mentors for this year's Ones to Watch program, with a selection of the country's leading producers to provide one-on-one guidance to participants throughout the next few months.
The Federal Government has entered a new phase of consultation with stakeholders in regard to streaming regulation, narrowing the options down to a revenue or expenditure-based model in what Screen Producers Australia says is a "significant step".
Screen Producers Australia has named domestic and international screen executives that will sit across two advisory boards for next year's Screen Forever, taking place in March on the Gold Coast.
Screen Producers Australia has unveiled its Ones To Watch cohort for 2023, featuring producers from across First Nations stories, social media series, drama, horror, rom-coms and factual.
Producers have labelled the NSW Government's decision to proceed with $60 million worth of cuts to the state's screen funding programs, impacting the Made In NSW fund and the Post, Digital and Visual Effects Rebate, as "reckless" and "nothing short of a disaster".
Australians in Film and Screen Australia have unveiled the five projects that will be nurtured through this year's Untapped Development Lab, which began last month and runs until December.
The NSW Government has signalled it will make cuts to screen funding in next week's state budget, including the Made in NSW fund, the Post, Digital and Visual Effects rebate and the Digital Games Development Rebate Program.
Technology trends such as the transformative impact of artificial intelligence were the subject of in-depth discussions at this year's Screen Producers Australia's GENR8 conference on Wednesday.