(L-r) Kevin Whyte, Lisa Wang and Todd Abbott accepting Spa’s Comedy Television Production of the Year award for ‘Please Like Me’ s2.
The screen industry needs to stop cutting writers’ fees and to do a lot better in providing career paths for writers, according to Guesswork Television MD Kevin Whyte.
Chiming with the concerns of the Australian Writers’ Guild and Cjz executives Nick Murray and Matt Campbell, Whyte tells If: “Working out how we can make Australia an attractive and lucrative place to be a television writer, which means we put stories and ideas first and foremost, is critically important.
“The struggling artist cliché is wearing a bit thin. The industry should focus on creating career paths, not just so people stay but to entice people in into the industry.
“I am not saying there is an easy solution but as our budgets come under more and more pressure...
The screen industry needs to stop cutting writers’ fees and to do a lot better in providing career paths for writers, according to Guesswork Television MD Kevin Whyte.
Chiming with the concerns of the Australian Writers’ Guild and Cjz executives Nick Murray and Matt Campbell, Whyte tells If: “Working out how we can make Australia an attractive and lucrative place to be a television writer, which means we put stories and ideas first and foremost, is critically important.
“The struggling artist cliché is wearing a bit thin. The industry should focus on creating career paths, not just so people stay but to entice people in into the industry.
“I am not saying there is an easy solution but as our budgets come under more and more pressure...
- 3/11/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Media Super CEO Graeme Russell and Guesswork Television MD Kevin Whyte.
Guesswork Television was crowned the 2018 Production Business of the Year at the Screen Producers Australia Awards, held last night at Melbourne’s Forum Theatre.
It was one of two accolades on the night for the company, which also picked up Comedy Series Production of the Year for Rosehaven with What Horse?. The top gong recognises Guesswork’s impressive production slate over the past year, which in addition to Rosehaven included Hannah Gadsby’s Nanette, Get Krackin’, Hard Quiz, Corey White’s Roadmap to Paradise, The Edge of the Bush and The Weekly with Charlie Pickering.
The other big winner on the night was Bunya Productions, who walked away with three prizes. As well as being named Breakthrough Business of the Year, it won Telemovie or Mini Series Production of the Year for Mystery Road and Feature Film of the Year for Sweet Country.
Guesswork Television was crowned the 2018 Production Business of the Year at the Screen Producers Australia Awards, held last night at Melbourne’s Forum Theatre.
It was one of two accolades on the night for the company, which also picked up Comedy Series Production of the Year for Rosehaven with What Horse?. The top gong recognises Guesswork’s impressive production slate over the past year, which in addition to Rosehaven included Hannah Gadsby’s Nanette, Get Krackin’, Hard Quiz, Corey White’s Roadmap to Paradise, The Edge of the Bush and The Weekly with Charlie Pickering.
The other big winner on the night was Bunya Productions, who walked away with three prizes. As well as being named Breakthrough Business of the Year, it won Telemovie or Mini Series Production of the Year for Mystery Road and Feature Film of the Year for Sweet Country.
- 11/22/2018
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
‘Little J and Big Cuz’.
Ned Lander Media’s animated series Little J and Big Cuz is the winner of the inaugural Screen Diversity and Inclusion Network (Sdin) Award.
The Sdin Award was created to honour Australian producers and projects which have made a significant contribution to diversity and inclusion, on and off screen, within the Australian screen industry. Little J and Big Cuz, commissioned by Nitv, is the first animated series specifically targeted at Indigenous children aged 4-6.
The announcement was made at Screen Forever yesterday by Sdin chair Courtney Gibson.
“For decades Ned Lander has been producing screen works in complete creative collaboration with Indigenous screen practitioners, going right back to the feature Wrong Side of the Road, made with the bands No Fixed Address and Us Mob. The creation of the first-ever Australian animated series targeted to an Indigenous audience, Little J and Big Cuz, is a continuation of that collaborative approach,...
Ned Lander Media’s animated series Little J and Big Cuz is the winner of the inaugural Screen Diversity and Inclusion Network (Sdin) Award.
The Sdin Award was created to honour Australian producers and projects which have made a significant contribution to diversity and inclusion, on and off screen, within the Australian screen industry. Little J and Big Cuz, commissioned by Nitv, is the first animated series specifically targeted at Indigenous children aged 4-6.
The announcement was made at Screen Forever yesterday by Sdin chair Courtney Gibson.
“For decades Ned Lander has been producing screen works in complete creative collaboration with Indigenous screen practitioners, going right back to the feature Wrong Side of the Road, made with the bands No Fixed Address and Us Mob. The creation of the first-ever Australian animated series targeted to an Indigenous audience, Little J and Big Cuz, is a continuation of that collaborative approach,...
- 11/21/2018
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Sonia Mehrmand.
The Screen Diversity and Inclusion Network (Sdin) has announced the nominees for the inaugural Sdin Award, with the winner to be announced at Screen Forever.
The annual award has been created to honour Australian producers and projects which have made a significant contribution to diversity and inclusion, either on or off screen, within the Australian screen industry.
All Sdin member organisations – which include the guilds, federal and state screen agencies, the broadcasters and other business associations, as well as MediaRING, FreeTV and Aftrs – nominated up to three entries each to create a long list of candidates. The final six nominees were then whittled down by a panel of judges including Media Diversity Australia’s Marc Fennell, the chair of the Meaa’s Diversity Committee Bali Padda, Indigenous practitioner Darlene Johnson and director and disability advocate Fiona Tuomy.
The nominees are:
Neighbours’ first same-sex wedding, by Fremantle Media for Channel Eleven,...
The Screen Diversity and Inclusion Network (Sdin) has announced the nominees for the inaugural Sdin Award, with the winner to be announced at Screen Forever.
The annual award has been created to honour Australian producers and projects which have made a significant contribution to diversity and inclusion, either on or off screen, within the Australian screen industry.
All Sdin member organisations – which include the guilds, federal and state screen agencies, the broadcasters and other business associations, as well as MediaRING, FreeTV and Aftrs – nominated up to three entries each to create a long list of candidates. The final six nominees were then whittled down by a panel of judges including Media Diversity Australia’s Marc Fennell, the chair of the Meaa’s Diversity Committee Bali Padda, Indigenous practitioner Darlene Johnson and director and disability advocate Fiona Tuomy.
The nominees are:
Neighbours’ first same-sex wedding, by Fremantle Media for Channel Eleven,...
- 11/12/2018
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
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