Shane Brennan has been elected the president of the Australian Writers' Guild (AWG), succeeding Jan Sardi.
All Australian screen industry guilds, Screen Producers Australia and bodies including Women in Film and Television Australia have made a joint submission to the government’s ‘Supporting Australian Stories on Our Screens’ options reviewr.
Explorations of evil and entrapment took top honours at Thursday's AWGIE Awards, with Colin Cairnes and Cameron Cairnes' 'Late Night with the Devil' and Kitty Green's 'The Royal Hotel' winning the original and adapted feature prizes, respectively.