See-Saw Films took out Production Business of the Year at Friday evening's Screen Producers Australia Awards, held on the final night of Screen Forever on the Gold Coast.
With Australia’s notoriously strict defamation laws undergoing a shake up in the past couple of
years and dramatic retellings of recent history becoming increasingly popular, has the state of play
for creatives wanting to base projects on real events and people changed? IF weighs up the views of producers and legal experts to find out.
If streamers are required to reinvest 20 per cent of their revenue on Australian content, it would deliver $300m towards local projects and 10,000 jobs - and ensure Australians see their country reflected back at them, writes Screen Producers Australia CEO Matthew Deaner.
Former BBC broadcast producer Tanya Ellen is Screen Queensland's new head of content, taking over from Mag Scholes.
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.
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".
The NSW Government has backtracked on its decision to cut $60 million from the state’s screen funding programs, announcing the Made In NSW fund and the Post, Digital and Visual Effects rebate will continue in their existing forms.
Screen Producers Australia has partnered with its Irish counterpart in order to host a delegation of Ireland-based producers during next year's Screen Forever, with an eye to accelerating co-production and partnership opportunities.