"We have to find a better way to support people and change the practices of how people enter the industry.”
Film Victoria has announced $2 million in production funding across 11 film, television and online projects, including Matchbox Pictures' upcoming SBS series 'Hungry Ghosts'.
The Australian Cinematographers Society, the Australian Writers' Guild and the Australian Screen Editors Guild are among the recipients of the South Australian Film Corporation’s (SAFC) new audience and industry development grants.
Filmed over three years, 'The Show Must Go On' is an important and moving exploration of the mental health of the 42,000 people working in the Australian entertainment industry.
Screen Producers Australia (SPA) has broadly welcomed Screen Australia's proposed overhaul of documentary funding guidelines but fears low budget productions will suffer from the scrapping of the Producer Equity Program (PEP).
When Rowan Chapman first set out to create a 'career longevity' guide for aspiring actors, offering up survival tactics to cope with the pressures of the industry, it wasn't initially clear that what he was crafting would end up in large part as a mental health and wellbeing resource.
This year's Gold Coast Film Festival will be bookended by two Aussie features, opening with Unjoo Moon's Helen Reddy biopic 'I Am Woman,' and closing with the locally shot comedic thriller 'Bloody Hell', directed by Alister Grierson.
Hoodlum Entertainment's Nathan Mayfield was devastated when the pandemic forced a halt to filming the third season of the ABC's Harrow and the second of Network 10's Five Bedrooms.