Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance chief executive Erin Madeley argues that with the Australian screen industry on the cusp of a growth period, it can’t afford to forget the workforce who drives it forward.
Among the productions impacted by the SAG-AFTRA strike are multiple international titles lured to Australia via the Location Incentive, which may be on hiatus until the strike is resolved.
With the writers strike in the US now entering its third week, writer and script producer Blake Ayshford reflects on the parallel and different issues facing writers working in Australia, where he argues our system means small rooms, short weeks for plotting and narrow career paths for newer writers are already the norm.