The Knowledge - Producer offset special edition 3
CSB has been working for months on an exciting project with film journalist Andrew Urban of Urbancinefile. We’re interviewing film and television practitioners about their business experiences.
Our aim is to develop a deeper understanding about the history of business decision-making in film and television and to share with our audience the wisdom from the accumulated mistakes, experiments and achievements of the contributors.
Antonia Barnard - biography
Antonia Barnard arrived in Australia from the UK in 1975 and started working at the Sydney Film Festival. She began her film production career in 1981 as a production manager, then became a line-producer and producer. Her credits as production manager include the mini-series Bodyline, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome and Young Einstein. From 1993-1995 Antonia worked as a Completion Guarantor Representative for Film Finances Inc. She is currently the Manager, Producer Offset, at the FFC.
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Chapter 1 - Background and film - 10 minutes
- The role of Manager, Producer Offset – introduce process, then to assess applications
- Experience in similar function with Location Offset scheme
- Experience in film and TV production, Australian and US projects
- Feature film producer offset – details
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Chapter 2 - Television - 7 minutes
- Television program producer offset - details
- Simplifying and clarifying guidelines and application language
- Inflating budgets to meet minimum criteria, including producer fees
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Chapter 3 - Documentary - 11 minutes
- Documentary producer offset – details
- Animation producer offset – details
- Definition of theatrical to qualify for 40%
- Access to guidelines and self assessment on FFC website
- FFC will co-invest with offset
- Above the line claim maximum 20% of budget
- Significant Australian Content issues
- Bomb Harvest (feature doco) as hypothetical
- Producers will need to be more entrepreneurial
- The more commercial projects will make more money for producers
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Chapter 4 - Details - 7 minutes
- Significant Australian content will safeguard offshore rorting
- Big studio pictures can access the 15% location and post production offset
- Baz Luhrmann’s $100 million ‘Australia’ is a good example
- New Zealand treated as any other country
- No limit on funds available
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