The ABC has promoted Aidan Laverty, former executive producer of 'Catalyst', to head of specialist, overseeing all arts, science, health and technology, religion and ethics, education and society and culture content.
Many screen producers are dismayed that Screen Australia has rejected their case to deny funding for BBC Studios' productions in Australia or to invest in local remakes of international formats.
BBC Studios has appointed Kylie Washington, Matchbox Pictures director of unscripted, as the head of its new production hub in Australia.
The BBC is looking to appoint a director of production for BBC Studios in Australia, which will launch on April 1 as part of the global merger of BBC Worldwide and BBC Studios.
Avid has announced that third year student at the Queensland University of Technology, Pasquale Heredia, has won the Avid Asia-Pacific Student Grant for his film Stargazing.