Unless Pictures' Meg O'Connell (Bluey) and Ruby Entertainment's Stephen Luby (Kath and Kim) have been added to the lineup of Screen Canberra's Screen POD program, set to begin next month.
Screen Canberra has opened applications for its annual Screen POD program, a five-month market-centred initiative aimed at assisting writers of diverse backgrounds in generating, developing, and pitching a screen project.
Stephen Johnson's 'High Ground' earned a special mention from the The Young Cinema Award jury at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards, held on the Gold Coast.
In a major overhaul of the regulatory system, the Federal Government is scrapping the fixed quotas for local drama, children's programming and documentary and harmonising the film and TV Producer Offsets at 30 per cent.
While the major ceremony will not go ahead given COVID-19 restrictions, the Asia Pacific Screen Academy (APSA) will still present a smaller number of awards in a live presentation in late November, while also running the concurrent industry event, the Asia Pacific Screen Forum, online.
Screen Queensland's Jo Dillon and writer Benjamin Law will be the co-chairs of the Screen Diversity Inclusion Network (SDIN) in 2020-21, succeeding Tim Soutphommasane and Tracey Vieira.
Screen Queensland is providing $3.3 million in re-allocated funding to support the stricken Queensland screen industry through the COVID-19 crisis.
More than 60 per cent of the 500-plus people who responded to Screen Queensland's survey on the impact on the screen sector from COVID-19 in the past two days are freelancers or contractors - and most are jobless.