Stan has warned the Federal Government that mandating minimum levels of spending on Australian content would undermine the streaming industry’s ability to generate the revenues needed to invest in high-quality Australian productions.
While production shutdowns are causing mass unemployment among all sectors of the screen sector, some practitioners see an upside.
When it came to putting together Foxtel’s 'The Kettering Incident', co-creator, co-producer and writer Vicki Madden was determined to adopt a showrunner model, despite it not being common practice in Australia.
Zenia Starr made her screen debut in Mark Grentell's 2013 cricket comedy Backyard Ashes but this year has been the first when she has worked virtually non-stop.