SBS head of scripted Julie Eckersley will be named Commissioner of the Year at this year's Screen Producers Australia Awards on the Gold Coast.
Some 54 production companies are among the finalists for this year's Screen Producers Australia (SPA) Awards, which span 12 categories across film, TV and interactive.
Northern Pictures was crowned Production Business of the Year at Wednesday evening's Screen Producers Australia (SPA) Awards, while also taking home further gongs for 'See What You Made Do' and 'Love on the Spectrum'.
Guesswork Television was crowned the 2018 Production Business of the Year at the Screen Producers Australia Awards, held yesterday evening at Melbourne's Forum Theatre.
Every Cloud Productions founders Deb Cox and Fiona Eagger will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at next week's SPA Awards, to be held on the final night of Screen Forever on the Gold Coast.
Stand-up comedian Anne Edmonds, a three-time Barry Award nominee for best show of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, will bring her wit and repartee as the host of the 2018 Screen Producers Australia Awards.
Lazy Susan Films and Mad Ones Films' 'Latecomers', the second season of Epic Films and KOJO Studios' 'First Day', and Blackfella Films' 'The Australia Wars' will contend this year's SDIN Award.
ABC head of scripted production Sally Riley is an early winner of this year's Screen Producer Australia Awards, named the inaugural Commissioner of the Year.