Screentime's Deb Spinocchia will join BBC Studios Australia and New Zealand in January as head of development and content, production.
ABC commissions contributed $744 million to the Australian economy and supported more than 8,300 jobs in the three years to 2020, new research has found.
Fremantle Asia Pacific CEO Chris Oliver-Taylor is set to join Netflix ANZ as head of physical production.
It's no secret that Australia experienced a significant production boom during the 2020-21 financial year, but Screen Australia has finally crunched the numbers to reveal a record $1.9 billion was spent on drama production across the period.
Liz Watts is See-Saw Films' new head of television and film, Australia.
Shaun Grant made it three wins in three years at Tuesday's AWGIE Awards, collecting the original feature prize for 'Nitram' to go with his previous film adaptation wins for 'Penguin Bloom' and 'The True History of the Kelly Gang'.
A lack of fairness, administrative complexities, and communication issues are the chief concerns for independent production companies doing business with commissioning platforms, according to new research from SPA.
A film where dangerous and deadly animals get to be the heroes? Where better to set that than in Australia - the country "where everything can kill you"?