Josh and Lauren Capelin's 'After School' has won the inaugural ShowdownDOC, a documentary strand of the Sunshine Coast Screen Collective's Sunny Coast Showdown initiative, receiving a production budget of over $100,000.
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Indigenous Business Australia (IBA), Screen Australia and No Coincidence Media have launched the First Nations Screen Business Accelerator, an initiative designed to support emerging and mid-career Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander producers in developing their projects and production companies.
As part of an upcoming research paper, Sticky Pictures CEO Donna Andrews has spent several months examining the skills needed to build a scalable and sustainable screen business, with one clear message emerging: producers need to be both creatives and leaders.
Screenworks, Netflix, and Screen Tasmania have named Isabela Hart as the state's Regional Crew Pathways Program participant, with the Glenorchy practitioner to complete a five-month placement at The Post Lounge.
Amid reports of production companies replacing note-taker roles with AI tools, participants in the Australian Writers' Guild's First Break program speak about the importance of the position for those starting out.
Adrian Chiarella, Jasmine Yang, Kalu Oji, and AP Pobjoy will headline Australians in Film's (AiF) Untapped Masterclass Series, which this year carries the theme Creative Collaboration.
Screen Careers and unit services provider Montague Production Services have partnered in a new initiative designed to see tradespeople from Western Australia transition into careers in the film and television industry.
NZÂ On Air and Netflix will jointly fund a screen workforce development program aimed at producing industry-ready crew, after research found the training system in NZ has been "fundamentally misaligned with the way the screen sector operates".
