Netflix has announced a deal worth a cool half million to train emerging crew in the Northern Rivers region, while Byron Bay studios is increasing its roster of senior staff. The linking element between both these announcements is Screenworks, the industry and professional development organisation which focused first on Northern Rivers, then on Northern NSW, and is now claiming a national agenda as well.
The very fact that Netflix is a) prepared to put a politically useful investment into a regional sector and b) is happy to run that through a not-for-profit, testifies to the twenty years of work that Screenworks has put into developing local capacity.
