Screen Australia delivers small screen funding guidelines
Screen Australia has released its draft funding guidelines for the small screen, focusing on media convergence and delivering $40m of annual production investment into the sector.
“On the eve of the convergence review, these programs provide greater opportunities for compelling Australian storytelling and will help to ensure that Australian content has a strong presence in the new converged media environment,” said CEO Ruth Harley.
According to Harley, the guidelines provide “flexibility for producers and broadcasters in the new environment with the need for clarity”.
The proposed structure was first announced last year, and in response to industry feedback, Screen Australia has incorporated significant changes – for example, foreign formats will not be excluded as originally suggested; instead, preference will be given to original formats over foreign formats.
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Hmm,
Given the importance of this, don’t you think it would have been good to see a bit of analysis? Or even to have got a comment or two from people outside Screen Aust, rather than just giving them a free plug?
This shows that they just don’t “get it”.
Sticking on the ‘Convergent’ tag is about as smart as expecting useful medical advice from Dr Harley, or lifetime service from a bag bought from a Manila street vendor because its tag says Louis Vuitton.
If you want to predict Screen Australia’s decisions more or less perfectly, use public choice theory. It’s about what’s good for them.