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INDUSTRY№ 01
Australian production spending fell 18 per cent in Q1 2026 and the floor is still not visible
The first quarter of 2026 saw $310 million in total production activity, down from $378 million in Q1 2025, and the independent sector took the largest hit.
ODETTE MALOUF28.04.2026
INDUSTRY№ 02
Screen Australia funded 112 development projects in 2025 and most will never be made
The development fund is the widest part of the funnel and the least visible, and the conversion rate tells the real story.
ODETTE MALOUF24.03.2026
INDUSTRY№ 03
Screen Australia's mid-year data shows a pipeline with gaps in the middle
The top and bottom of the pipeline are functioning; the mid-budget features that sustain careers are still missing.
ODETTE MALOUF08.09.2025
INDUSTRY№ 04
Screen Australia's 2022-23 annual report buried the interesting number on page forty-seven
Total production activity hit $2.1 billion and the domestic share shrank to 28 per cent, which is the number nobody put in the headline.
ODETTE MALOUF18.09.2023
INDUSTRY№ 05
Australian production hit its 2023 peak in August and the pipeline was already cooling
Thirty-eight productions were in active photography in August, the highest since COVID, and by October the number will drop to twenty-two.
ODETTE MALOUF24.08.2023
INDUSTRY№ 06
Australian film's gender parity numbers improved and the mid-budget gap stayed the same
Women directed 37 per cent of funded features in 2021, up from 16 per cent a decade ago, but the budgets they received tell a different story.
ODETTE MALOUF20.04.2022
INDUSTRY№ 07
Screen Australia's $212 million year and the question nobody asked
The number is the largest on record, but the distribution tells a different story.
ODETTE MALOUF15.03.2022
INDUSTRY№ 08
The 2021 production pipeline closed with $1.8 billion in activity and a crew shortage
Record spending met a workforce that had spent eighteen months doing something else, and the gap showed.
ODETTE MALOUF16.12.2021
INDUSTRY№ 09
Screen Australia's $50 million recovery fund arrived and the fine print told the real story
The headline was $50 million for production restart; the detail was a temporary insurance guarantee and a pipeline that favours projects already in development.
ODETTE MALOUF14.04.2021
INDUSTRY№ 10
Screen Australia's supplementary COVID fund filled a gap and created a queue
The $20 million top-up kept twelve productions from collapsing and left thirty-eight others waiting for money that was already spent.
ODETTE MALOUF10.03.2021
INDUSTRY№ 11
The COVID production insurance gap cost Australian cinema $120 million in paused projects
Insurers excluded COVID from coverage, productions could not restart without it, and the government took four months to fill the gap.
ODETTE MALOUF22.09.2020
INDUSTRY№ 12
COVID Safe protocols cost $800,000 per production and nobody knows who is paying
Productions are restarting under strict health protocols, but the cost of compliance is falling on budgets that were already tight.
ODETTE MALOUF18.08.2020
INDUSTRY№ 13
The 2019 Australian box office in five numbers
Australian films took 4.6 per cent of the domestic box office in 2019, and the number tells you less than you think.
ODETTE MALOUF18.02.2020