Ryan, Mark David
2010
Film, Cinema, Screen

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“Screen industries around the globe are evolving. While technological change has been slower to take effect upon the Australian film industry than other creative sectors such as music and publishing, all indications suggest that local screen practices are in a process of fundamental change.”
“Terms such as ‘film’ are becoming more and more problematic within this evolving landscape. Educators, government development bodies and scholars increasingly are opting for the term ‘screen’ over ‘film’ to describe the range of screen possibilities now possible from ‘movies’ released and consumed online, to short animations produced for mobile phones.” Instead of thinking about new terms they should think about what’s happening.

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“Since 2008, the introduction of the Producer Offset, and the creation of Screen Australia – an amalgamation of the Australian Film Commission and Film Finance Corporation – has resulted in the most significant overhaul of public finance structures for the film industry in almost 20 years.”
“Screen Australia’s new policy rationales mark a shift from ‘cultural’ to ‘industry’ policy, and by implication a greater emphasis on growth, sustainability and commercial returns, rather than subsidisation of purely cultural expression without commercial imperatives.”