The extent and impact of alcohol use in the screen industry is the subject of a new online study launched through the University of Melbourne, in partnership with social enterprise Screen Well.
Screen leaders have outsize influence on industry workplace culture, with producers the most influential of all. Yet the vast majority have received no leadership or people management training, according to new research.
When Chanel Bowen read the results of the recent University of Melbourne report 'Disability and Screen Work in Australia', she was surprised – not at the findings, but that there were not more disabled people reporting discrimination.
People with disability working in the screen industry routinely experience prejudice, are lower paid, offered more precarious work and are in less powerful positions than their non-disabled counterparts.
'How to Thrive: a practical guide to happiness' is a documentary that tracks the transformation of seven participants with mental health issues, guided by Positive Psychotherapist Marie McLeod.
Nine writers from across Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, and the ACT will be mentored by the likes of Shaun Grant, Kai Yu Wu, Sarah Lambert, Stuart Beattie, and Stacy Traub as part of this year's Impact Australia accelerator.
Subjects ranging from the Australian Open tennis tournament to the country's LGBTQI+ history will be explored in the latest round of documentary projects to receive production funding from Screen Australia.
“One in five people in Australia experience disability. It’s time to bring the issues which put up barriers for these people in the screen industry to the fore."