WA Screen Industry Strategy 2024-34 – Screen Producers Australia (SPA) congratulates the Government of Western Australia on the release last week of the Western Australian Screen Industry Strategy 2024-34.
“The release of this strategy is a welcome acknowledgement of the economic importance of the screen industry as an important and high-value future sector for WA,”
– said SPA CEO Matthew Deaner.
“An industry strategy that brings together the industry’s investment, skills, training, and infrastructure needs with an ambition to grow the sector is a significant boost to local screen businesses. This strategy will provide confidence and much-needed coordination to address the industry’s growing needs.
In particular, SPA notes that the strategy recognises that development and production funding is needed to ensure that intellectual property is created and owned in WA.
“This initiative around development funding is critical to developing self-sustaining local screen businesses. Ownership of our industry’s product—the IP in the ideas, characters, and concepts—is the building block of our local industry,”
– Mr Deaner said.
SPA also notes the importance of building capacity in the sector through a workforce plan and that this should focus on the critical “below-the-line” jobs for screen crew.
WA-based SPA members have raised this as a priority issue for them to ensure they can staff their projects and meet the peaks and troughs of production.
“I congratulate the Government of Western Australia on the work done to develop this strategy and look forward to working with everyone involved to see this implemented in the years ahead,”
– said Mr Deaner.
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WA Screen Industry Strategy 2024-34
