The games industry is among the early winners of next week’s Federal Budget, which will include a 30 per cent Digital Games Tax Offset.
Announced today as part of a $1.2 billion Digital Economy Strategy outlined by Prime Minister Scott Morrison and the Minister for Superannuation, Financial Service and the Digital Economy, Jane Hume, the rebate is designed to support Australia “taking a greater share of the $250 billion global game development market”.
Eligible businesses will be required to incur a minimum of $500,000 per game on qualifying Australian games expenditure, while the maximum offset a game developer will be able to claim in each year is $20 million.
It comes seven years after the Australian Interactive Games Fund was terminated as a result of funding cuts to Screen Australia announced in the 2014 Budget.
The sector has since experienced widespread growth, both domestically and internationally, surpassing $4 billion in annual sales within Australia (Interactive Games...
Announced today as part of a $1.2 billion Digital Economy Strategy outlined by Prime Minister Scott Morrison and the Minister for Superannuation, Financial Service and the Digital Economy, Jane Hume, the rebate is designed to support Australia “taking a greater share of the $250 billion global game development market”.
Eligible businesses will be required to incur a minimum of $500,000 per game on qualifying Australian games expenditure, while the maximum offset a game developer will be able to claim in each year is $20 million.
It comes seven years after the Australian Interactive Games Fund was terminated as a result of funding cuts to Screen Australia announced in the 2014 Budget.
The sector has since experienced widespread growth, both domestically and internationally, surpassing $4 billion in annual sales within Australia (Interactive Games...
- 5/6/2021
- by Sean Slatter
- IF.com.au
Australia's leading directors have voiced their support for Screen Australia's plan to address the gender imbalance in Australian film.
Screen Australia is investing $5 million over three years to address the gender imbalance in the Australian film industry.
The screen funding body recently unveiled a five point plan which includes an immediate $3 million allocation of .jump start. funding to get female-led projects production-ready within two years, and a further $2 million of support for placements, distribution incentives, marketing and industry networking.
This also includes a goal to have production funding targeted at teams that are at least 50 per cent female by the end of 2018..
The plan follows the Australian Directors Guild's commitment to have women fill 50 per cent of the attachments and for 75 per cent of the attachemnts to reflect both gender and cultural diversity..
Australian Director's Guild president, Sam Lang, said she was pleased to see that Screen Australia had taken...
Screen Australia is investing $5 million over three years to address the gender imbalance in the Australian film industry.
The screen funding body recently unveiled a five point plan which includes an immediate $3 million allocation of .jump start. funding to get female-led projects production-ready within two years, and a further $2 million of support for placements, distribution incentives, marketing and industry networking.
This also includes a goal to have production funding targeted at teams that are at least 50 per cent female by the end of 2018..
The plan follows the Australian Directors Guild's commitment to have women fill 50 per cent of the attachments and for 75 per cent of the attachemnts to reflect both gender and cultural diversity..
Australian Director's Guild president, Sam Lang, said she was pleased to see that Screen Australia had taken...
- 12/11/2015
- by Brian Karlovsky
- IF.com.au
The Australian Directors' Guild has appointed Samantha Lang as president - its second female president, after Gillian Armstrong.
Jeffrey Walker (Jack Irish), Jen Peedom (Sherpa) and Jonathan Brough (Time of Our Lives) will also join the Australian Directors' Guild board.
The Adg Board is comprised of members working as directors across feature film, television, documentary and digital content.
Australian Directors' Guild chief executive, Kingston Anderson, said the new directors were from a wide range of disciplines across feature film, television, documentary and digital. .
"I would like to thank outgoing directors Donald Crombie, Rebecca Barry and Anthony Lucas for their service to the Guild,. he said.
At the Agm the membership expressed its appreciation of the work of outgoing president Ray Argall with a unanimous vote of thanks.
Stephen Wallace, long time board member and President of the Australian Screen Directors Authorship Collection Agency (Asdacs), praised Argall's work over the past 10 years.
Jeffrey Walker (Jack Irish), Jen Peedom (Sherpa) and Jonathan Brough (Time of Our Lives) will also join the Australian Directors' Guild board.
The Adg Board is comprised of members working as directors across feature film, television, documentary and digital content.
Australian Directors' Guild chief executive, Kingston Anderson, said the new directors were from a wide range of disciplines across feature film, television, documentary and digital. .
"I would like to thank outgoing directors Donald Crombie, Rebecca Barry and Anthony Lucas for their service to the Guild,. he said.
At the Agm the membership expressed its appreciation of the work of outgoing president Ray Argall with a unanimous vote of thanks.
Stephen Wallace, long time board member and President of the Australian Screen Directors Authorship Collection Agency (Asdacs), praised Argall's work over the past 10 years.
- 11/30/2015
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
Screenwriters who want to think outside the conventional narrative box can learn a lot from neuroscience studies of monkeys.
Huh? Yes, that.s the subject of a lecture to be delivered in Sydney on July 30 by writer, director, actor and educator Steve Vidler.
His keynote talk at a StoryCode event at the Academy of Information Technology in Ultimo is entitled .What monkeys can teach us about screen story- or how I learned to stop worrying about 3 act structure and love neuroscience..
Vidler, who has a PhD in screenwriting at Macquarie University and lectures at Aftrs, will ask attendees, .How many screenplays have you read, and how many films have you seen that suffer from the same problem? Screen stories that are conventionally .properly. structured, and yet are devoid of meaning.
.The big problem shared by most approaches to screen storytelling is that they.re based on the assumption of some...
Huh? Yes, that.s the subject of a lecture to be delivered in Sydney on July 30 by writer, director, actor and educator Steve Vidler.
His keynote talk at a StoryCode event at the Academy of Information Technology in Ultimo is entitled .What monkeys can teach us about screen story- or how I learned to stop worrying about 3 act structure and love neuroscience..
Vidler, who has a PhD in screenwriting at Macquarie University and lectures at Aftrs, will ask attendees, .How many screenplays have you read, and how many films have you seen that suffer from the same problem? Screen stories that are conventionally .properly. structured, and yet are devoid of meaning.
.The big problem shared by most approaches to screen storytelling is that they.re based on the assumption of some...
- 7/27/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Kim Mordaunt, Rowan Woods and Rachel Perkins were among the winners in the Australian Directors Guild awards presented in Sydney at the Powerhouse Museum on Friday night.
Mordaunt took the Adg award for best direction in a feature film for his debut film The Rocket. The best direction in a telemovie gong went to Woods for The Broken Shore.. Perkins won the prize for best direction in a TV drama series for Redfern Now series 2, episode 2, Starting Over.
The Adg Awards celebrate the outstanding work of Australian screen directors in the past year in 16 categories including film, television, multiplatform, music and advertising. .The winners include some of the industry.s most experienced directors such as Ray Lawrence, Rowan Woods, Geoffrey Nottage and Rachel Perkins, but also reflect the incredible new talent rising through the ranks who are working across the various screen platforms,. said Adg executive director Kingston Anderson. The...
Mordaunt took the Adg award for best direction in a feature film for his debut film The Rocket. The best direction in a telemovie gong went to Woods for The Broken Shore.. Perkins won the prize for best direction in a TV drama series for Redfern Now series 2, episode 2, Starting Over.
The Adg Awards celebrate the outstanding work of Australian screen directors in the past year in 16 categories including film, television, multiplatform, music and advertising. .The winners include some of the industry.s most experienced directors such as Ray Lawrence, Rowan Woods, Geoffrey Nottage and Rachel Perkins, but also reflect the incredible new talent rising through the ranks who are working across the various screen platforms,. said Adg executive director Kingston Anderson. The...
- 5/2/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Do we really need directors? It.s hardly a question you expect, of all bodies, the Australian Directors Guild to put forward for discussion. But that.s exactly what will happen next month at the Adg Conference: Directing in the Digital Age, in a panel that will discuss the future of directors in the Australian screen industry. Director Michela Ledwidge, who will appear on the panel, says she expects the conversation to revolve not around whether directors are still relevant, but at what constitutes a director and how this may evolve. .I think the main point of the panel is . and the reason I.ve been invited onto it . is just to stick a canary in a cage in front of the directors and [Adg] membership to say, .Well, what exactly are we talking about in 2013? What are we directing? Who is the membership? Is it reflecting what.s going on in terms of screen-based storytelling?...
- 10/28/2013
- by Emily Blatchford
- IF.com.au
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