IF chats with the producers who will be on the ground at Screen Forever via the Ireland Connect delegation, and asks what they want in Aussie co-production partners.
We get advice about navigating Screen Forever from Donna Andrews, CEO of Sticky Pictures, and Julia Redwood, owner and MD of Prospero Productions. A top tip: don't follow potential partners into the bathroom to pitch!
There is confidence within the documentary sector that its concerns about the genre's omission from last year's streaming regulation models have been heard ahead of the legislation's introduction to parliament.
“This promises to be a watershed year”: Screen Forever to ‘prepare the ground’ for regulatory change
Ahead of next week's Screen Forever, Screen Producers Australia CEO Matthew Deaner reflects on a tumultuous 2023, and outlines his hopes for 2024 to be a landmark year - regulation pending.
More than 20 organisations from around the world, including SPA and NZ's SPADA, have signed a joint statement calling on governments to require global streamers such as Netflix and Prime Video to make "fair and proportional" contributions to local content in the markets in which they operate.
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.
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.
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".