Rochelle Siemienowicz reflects on the industry’s passion for criticising its awards system, the tricky problem of honour television, and asserts the value of a very expensive ticket.
Family feuds and the evolution of the Awards
Every family has its feuds, and if the Australian screen industry is a kind of dysfunctional family, then there are certainly recurrent ‘types’ represented by the various guilds, funding bodies and professional associations. I’ll leave you to try to identify the belligerent big brothers, tantrumming toddlers, resentful middle children, neglectful parents, quiet achievers and bipolar cousins.
