Under new reforms, producers cannot get a tax rebate for production budgets under $1 million. Recent films in this category include Gurrumul, In My Blood it Runs, Firestarters, Brazen Hussies and Girls Can't Surf .

While the blockbusters belt each other in a flurry of scales and floppy ears, local sci-fi movie Ascendant tries to claim some attention in the undergrowth.

Netflix and Warner Media are trying to harness globalism, and discovering it is harder than they thought. Can Australian producers gain from the new rules?

Rikki Lea Bestall replaces Willie Rowe as CEO in Screenwest at a time of considerable change.

The lobbying worked. The government's plan to reduce the 40% rebate for the feature sector has been abandoned.