Image: shooting Rosehaven Series two with no desert, no terror and no shallow graves. Production still carried in Hobart Mercury.
In the past couple of years, broadcasters have been telling producers to give them stories from places other than the leafy suburbs of Melbourne and the seaside suburbs of Sydney; more eucalypt, less asphalt. Alex Sangston from Screen Tasmania chaired a panel of producers sharing their experiences of working outside metro areas; Vicki Madden (The Kettering Incident), Sue Maslin (The Dressmaker), Kev Whyte (Rosehaven) and Fiona McConaghy (Noirhouse).