Writing and Publishing

Screen Australia: producers turn on loopholes and strange anomalies
Replying to producers' letter, Screen Australia defends funding BBC Studios. Is this as odd as it seems?

Los Angeles mentorships open again
Supported by Australians in Film, four mentorships offer the chance to connect closely to Hollywood and fit the experience in…

SPA nominates its favourite feature production companies and projects for 2018
The Screen Producers Australia Awards focus on the most mysterious category of all - the behaviour of producers. What does…

Pirates, streaming, dubbing, Korean ascendancy - the Asian market bubbles
Asian screen lobby group reveals the nuts and bolts of the evolving market, particularly in South East Asia.

Ad-free streaming services a threat to the whole system?
Streaming services are happy disruptors, but they could warp the system in more profound ways than we think.

Commercials find novel way to argue against kids' TV
The commercial networks have a once in a lifetime chance to exit kids' TV. They are good at ideas under…

What's on screen: Breaker Upperers, Wrong Kind of Black, MIFF, Koreans...
MIFF, French comedy Dr Knock and Wrong Kind of Black head a lineup which also covers the Palace doc fest…

Daley Pearson - Australian stories are 'authored and from the gut.'
What do we mean by Australian stories? Queensland producer and comic creative Daley Pearson provides a beaut answer from Coolum…

Screenrights Chief Executive Simon Lake resigns
Screenrights loses a veteran who has presided over enormous changes over twenty years. Expect Simon Lake to surface for new…

Prism - how can Australian feature production emerge from its Vale of Tears?
First tool to advance the frustrated Australian feature sector is clear thinking, backed by co-operation. Here's a good start.