Anni Browning.
Former Film Finances Australasia head Anni Browning will be the recipient of this year’s Screen Producers Australia (Spa) Lifetime Achievement Award.
Browning announced she was stepping down as managing director of the completion bond company earlier this year, handing the reins to Dan Read. She had worked for the organisation for 22 years, nine of which as its head, but remains in an advisory position.
Invited to join Film Finances Australasia in the 1990s by producer Sue Milliken, Browning brought to the company already 20 years of experience in a range of capacities, including multiple roles in art departments and producing two award-winning documentaries, Canoeing the Murray, for the South Australian Government and Getting Even — Women in Australian Politics, for the ABC.
Over the years, Browning has served as a councillor for Spaa, the Ataea; been a co-convenor of Queer Screen; consulted for Nz On Air, the ABC, the...
Former Film Finances Australasia head Anni Browning will be the recipient of this year’s Screen Producers Australia (Spa) Lifetime Achievement Award.
Browning announced she was stepping down as managing director of the completion bond company earlier this year, handing the reins to Dan Read. She had worked for the organisation for 22 years, nine of which as its head, but remains in an advisory position.
Invited to join Film Finances Australasia in the 1990s by producer Sue Milliken, Browning brought to the company already 20 years of experience in a range of capacities, including multiple roles in art departments and producing two award-winning documentaries, Canoeing the Murray, for the South Australian Government and Getting Even — Women in Australian Politics, for the ABC.
Over the years, Browning has served as a councillor for Spaa, the Ataea; been a co-convenor of Queer Screen; consulted for Nz On Air, the ABC, the...
- 10/17/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Anni Browning accepts the 2017 Spa Award to Film Finances for Best Service and Facilities.
In 22 years with Film Finances Australasia, Anni Browning experienced numerous highs and faced a few challenges as the cinema industry ebbed and flowed.
Browning, who has stepped down as MD of the completion bond company but is still a consultant, supported Rachel Perkins’ debut feature Radiance.
She took one of her biggest risks on a Rolf de Heer movie, which she counts as one of her proudest achievements.
The biggest trend during her time has been the proliferation of low budget films, despite the need to pay crews and allocate reasonable money for post- production. Film Finances bonded a lot of films budgeted at $1 million- $1.5 million and one-off feature docs costing as little as $100,000- $200,000.
One thing which has not remained constant is the insurance bond premium. When she started it was as high as 6 per cent of the budget.
In 22 years with Film Finances Australasia, Anni Browning experienced numerous highs and faced a few challenges as the cinema industry ebbed and flowed.
Browning, who has stepped down as MD of the completion bond company but is still a consultant, supported Rachel Perkins’ debut feature Radiance.
She took one of her biggest risks on a Rolf de Heer movie, which she counts as one of her proudest achievements.
The biggest trend during her time has been the proliferation of low budget films, despite the need to pay crews and allocate reasonable money for post- production. Film Finances bonded a lot of films budgeted at $1 million- $1.5 million and one-off feature docs costing as little as $100,000- $200,000.
One thing which has not remained constant is the insurance bond premium. When she started it was as high as 6 per cent of the budget.
- 7/7/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Jane Corden, CEO of industry financial and accounting services company Moneypenny, writes that the Australian screen industry is facing a worrying shortage of experienced production accountants.
2019 has started with a bang; I suspect there’s more concurrent production than we have seen for a long while going on right now in Australia. However, the ever-growing worldwide thirst for content is putting strain on available crews. Experienced line producers, production accountants, and accounts assistants are in short supply. Yet the dire shortage of people to fill these positions is not simply a passing phenomenon that has come about due to a spike in demand. There is also a shortage of trainees coming through the ranks. Unfortunately experienced line producers and production accountants are not created in a classroom. The suitably qualified people needed on the shows that have started in the last few months should have been in training over the last five years.
2019 has started with a bang; I suspect there’s more concurrent production than we have seen for a long while going on right now in Australia. However, the ever-growing worldwide thirst for content is putting strain on available crews. Experienced line producers, production accountants, and accounts assistants are in short supply. Yet the dire shortage of people to fill these positions is not simply a passing phenomenon that has come about due to a spike in demand. There is also a shortage of trainees coming through the ranks. Unfortunately experienced line producers and production accountants are not created in a classroom. The suitably qualified people needed on the shows that have started in the last few months should have been in training over the last five years.
- 3/4/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Richard Soames, a well-known and influential figure in the Australian screen industry for 30 years, has died at his home in Los Angeles, aged 78. Soames was the long-time CEO of completion guarantor Film Finances, the first company to provide completion guarantees at the introduction of the 10Ba tax incentives in 1981. The London-born Soames joined Film Finances in the early 1970s and expanded the business in the Us, Canada and Australia. "Richard was such a part of the scene down here in the 80s and 90s," said Sue Milliken, who represented Film Finances in Australia until Anni Browning took over as MD in 2010. "He visited at least three times a year, travelled all over the country to film locations and he was on the telex and later the fax and email on a daily basis no matter where he was in the world. Our working relationship was a fantastic one, based totally on trust.
- 11/6/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
A group of Australia’s top film-makers have joined international counterparts in asking where all the women are in the Cannes Film Festival selection.
After not one film by a female director was selected at the Cannes Film Festival, film-maker Gillian Armstrong, along with other film-makers from Australia and around the world have ask the festival to reveal its selection criteria.
Led by Melissa Silverstein, founder of the Women and Hollywood blog on the Indiewire Network the campaign asks for transparency from the festival.
Silverstein said: “While the typical Cannes stories focus on the glamour, clothes and celebrities on the red carpet, this year many articles are focused on whether the festival is sexist. The fact that the festival’s director, Thierry Fremaux, as well as the jury had to address this issue at the opening is a big deal.”
On the lack of women, festival director Thierry Fremaux said:...
After not one film by a female director was selected at the Cannes Film Festival, film-maker Gillian Armstrong, along with other film-makers from Australia and around the world have ask the festival to reveal its selection criteria.
Led by Melissa Silverstein, founder of the Women and Hollywood blog on the Indiewire Network the campaign asks for transparency from the festival.
Silverstein said: “While the typical Cannes stories focus on the glamour, clothes and celebrities on the red carpet, this year many articles are focused on whether the festival is sexist. The fact that the festival’s director, Thierry Fremaux, as well as the jury had to address this issue at the opening is a big deal.”
On the lack of women, festival director Thierry Fremaux said:...
- 5/18/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
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