12 producers were selected who are passionate about creating screen stories based on First Nations families, extraordinary life stories, off-beat edgy comedies, LGBTQIA+ narratives, female empowerment, and diverse expression.
Screen Producers Australia has welcomed comments this week from Senator George Brandis, Attorney General and Minister for the Arts, supporting an increase in the Australian Screen Production Incentives (offsets).
The titles that will contend for Best Feature Film Production, Best Drama Series Production, and Telemovie or Mini-Series Production of the Year at next year's Screen Producers Australia Awards have been revealed, with voting now open for the penultimate round of finalists.
Ahead of his trip Down Under for Screen Forever, Invention Studios president and founder Nicholas Weinstock - EP of AppleTV+'s 'Severance' - talks to IF about his company’s global remit and Aussie projects, his unique pathway to a producing career, and his online network for emerging writers and directors, Craft Services.
Amid ongoing debate over local content quotas, the Seven Network has threatened to halt the production of children's programs and to scrap plans for new adult drama, raising the ire of producers.
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.
Industry guilds and the free-to-air broadcasters alike have expressed dismay over the Federal Government's move late last week to extend the Post, Digital and Visual (PDV) and Location Offsets to online platforms, arguing the government has missed an opportunity to introduce further policies that could benefit the local industry.
Australian producers who lament the time and resources devoted to developing projects that don’t eventuate can take heart from Dominic Minghella.