Former BBC broadcast producer Tanya Ellen is Screen Queensland's new head of content, taking over from Mag Scholes.
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.
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.
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.
IF speaks with the documentary filmmaker and NIDA green ambassador about the important role storytelling can play in sustainability.
Venn and Screen Well have joined forces on a research project to examine on set leadership and culture, and how it impacts mental health and wellbeing. Venn managing director Jonathon Dutton shares some of the preliminary findings.
Actor, writer, director and producer Aaron Fa’aoso, managing director of Lone Star Production Group, talks to IF about his projects in development and hopes for a Torres Strait Islander-specific screen strategy.
Screen Producers Australia CEO Matthew Deaner writes that Screen Forever 37 comes at critical period for industry, with robust discussion required.