In this episode of We Interrupt This Broadcast, Julie and Kirsty wrap up this month's industry news, from short film funding and Screen Australia's new guidelines to Google's Veo 3.

Plus: International news, Screenwest increases its PDV Offset, Creative Australia's new website, and more screen industry news from around the country...

00:00 Intro

00:38 Short films, microbudget features & safety concerns

03:24 Screen Australia's new short film guidelines

06:17 Screen Well hosts wellbeing roundtables

06:37 Creative Australia releases new website

07:33 Google launches Veo 3

11:01 Mr Beast hits 400 million subscribers

11:35 Mountainhead's streamlined production process

13:08 Screenwest increases PDV rebate

13:48 Ausfilm leads Australian contingent at Annecy

14:16 What we've been watching

15:50 What’s in production around the country

17:04 Upcoming Industry Events

19:09 Remembering Liz Tomkins

20:02 Acknowledgement of Country

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Short Film Funding

Previous episode: Melanie Rowland and Flunk

SA's Film Lab: New Voices initiative & its films: Monolith & Lesbian Space Princess

Robert Rodriguez book - Rebel Without a Crew

Screen Australia Webinars - New Guidelines

Narrative - with Louise Gough

Documentary - with Richard Huddleston

Creative Workplaces

New website

AI & Google's Veo 3

Official page

Example AI generated videos

Clayton Jacobson's perfume ad

Opinion: The film industry is about to get Blockbuster'd by AI and nobody sees it coming

Leonardo AI

Scott Dickson - Bold Digital Media

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International

Mr. Beast hits 400 million subscribers

Mountainhead's production process: Hollywood Reporter | Indiewire

News in Brief

Screenwest increases PDV rebate to 20%

Stan extends multi-year partnership with Sony Pictures Television

Stan to present at Content London

Ausfilm leads an Annecy contingent

What We're Watching

The Survivors | Bring Her Back | Hacks | Sunday Too Far Away

SAFC 50th anniversary screening

In Production:

Tenzing | ⁠Gnomes | Play Dead

⁠⁠Screen Australia Upcoming Productions⁠ | ⁠IF In Production⁠

Simtrav behind the scenes footage from The Survivors

Upcoming Events

Screenworks Regional to Global | Australians in Film Future Vision Summit | AFTRS Digital Futures Summit

Vale Liz Tomkins

WIFT Announcement

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