AIDC: Plenary

The Plenary Session was an amiable, scrappy wrap-up which surfaced some issues and concealed some tensions. Brian Beaton, Julie Marlow, Chris Hilton and Andrew Ogilvie took the stage.
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The Plenary Session was an amiable, scrappy wrap-up which surfaced some issues and concealed some tensions. Brian Beaton, Julie Marlow, Chris Hilton and Andrew Ogilvie took the stage.

Missing in action was that strange beast, the Screen Council, which everyone insists exists but is curiously elusive.

As reported several times at the conference, the Producer Offset remains problematical. The banks don’t want to cashflow a QAPE which is so low; they don’t understand how to manage the risk in these projects; the provisional certificates carry little weight.

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David Tiley was the Editor of Screenhub from 2005 until he became Content Lead for Film in 2021 with a special interest in policy. He is a writer in screen media with a long career in educational programs, documentary, and government funding, with a side order in script editing. He values curiosity, humour and objectivity in support of Australian visions and the art of storytelling.