Image: the Australian screen sector discovers a good idea for a funding mechanism. [Actually, this shows Nicola Tesla at work with his ‘magnifying transmitter’.]
The Screen Producers Australia in association with the Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance this week unveiled the bare bones of a low budget funding mechanism which they would jointly run. They would mean the employers’ body (SPA) and the union (MEAA) will be functioning like an agency – which is a pretty startling development in our context, though it is more familiar overseas.
