Screen Australia CEO Graeme Mason will depart the agency at the end of his second term in November 2023. Mason announced the news to staff this morning and recruitment for the CEO position will commence shortly.

Screen Australia is pleased to announce the appointment of Bobby Romia as Head of Development, starting 30 January. Bobby will lead the Development Unit and report to Head of Content Grainne Brunsdon.

Screen Australia is pleased to announce that Ken Crouch will be joining the agency in February 2023 in the newly created role of Training and Industry Development Manager.

The Screen Diversity and Inclusion Network (SDIN) has released preliminary results from the inaugural The Everyone Project survey which measures diversity on and off screen in Australia’s TV and film industry.

Screen Australia has met the goal of the Gender Matters KPI: 55% of key creative roles across approved development and production funding were women across the three-year reporting period. However, there was a downward trend across the reporting period, and more work needs to be done.

Screen Australia has closed the Temporary Interruption Fund (TIF).

Screen Australia is pleased to announce new Development Executives Imogen Gardam and Bobby Romia who both started this week, reporting to Head of Development Louise Gough.

Screen Australia has opened applications for screen practitioners to attend Content London, a world leading development marketplace and conference.

Screen Australia has announced the return of Talent USA: New York.

Screen Australia will host Venice Film Festival (La Biennale di Venezia) pre-selector Paolo Bertolin to view new eligible feature films in May.

Members of the Australian Screen Sector Task Force have revised the COVID-Safe Guidelines to reflect the current Australian landscape in relation to the ongoing pandemic, and learning from the past two years of production in Australia and internationally.

Screen Australia’s Producer Offset Guidelines have been updated with the changes applying to productions that commenced principal photography on or after 1 July 2021.