Screen Forever: how producers can storm Hollywood, gently

Agents, showrunners, Australian diffidence, hammering on the Hollywood gates - here's how producers get a Californian tan.
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Hollywood isn’t like that any more. Image: Barton Fink

While writers, directors and actors can plug themselves into the Hollywood machine, producers are not so easy to export. Traditionally they are the people who stay home, developing new talent and focusing on the local market. 

Now key Australian producers are building international companies that allow them to directly compete in overseas markets. At the same time the role of producer is becoming increasingly fluid as agents package deals and showrunners take over television. 

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Gus Howard
About the Author
Gus Howard is a veteran producer, mostly in television, whose first public credit was for an educational short in 1981 called Don't Just Stand There Coughing. He was the producer on Blue Heelers from 1996-2006, made the six ep miniseries Rain Shadow, taught the MA program at VCA in producing, and is actively developing and financing new productions.