What will 2011 bring?
At last month’s Encore Question Time, we asked Screen Australia head of development Martha Coleman, Omnilab Media’s Christopher Mapp, Sony Pictures Australia’s Stephen Basil-Jones and producer Al Clark about their plans, expectations and hopes for 2011. This is what they had to say.
TV in this country doing a wonderful job of training talent? Chris Mapp Omnilab CEO are you for real? I love the optimism of our TV/Film Generals.. but in reality..as we aspire to pull ourselves out of the muddy trenches of ten years of average funding decisions audiences and aspiring creatives are being mowed down with banality/boredom bullets. TV in this country is a disgrace…terrible…I really hope this amazing Rom-Com coming down the pipeline is a success…I really do…because if it isn’t..will the powers that be step down and admit that they don’t know a thing? I doubt it. “I love you too” was one of the worst screenplays I have ever read and Screen Australia poured money into that…fingers crossed..tightly crossed. TV is not a training ground in this country…not a training ground for fresh ideas that push the envelope that is for sure.