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Screenwest Annual Report 2012-13PDF ANNUAL REPORT 2012/2013 SCREENWEST ANNUAL REPORT | 2012/2013 SCREENWEST ANNUAL REPORT | 2012/2013 Table of Contents Statement of Compliance .......................................................... 2 Notes to the Financial Statements ........................................... 44 Overview of the Agency ............................................................. 4 Additional Key Performance Indicator Information ................... 84 Executive Summary ................................................................... 4 Key Efficiency and Effectiveness Indicators.................................85 Operational Structure ................................................................11 Appendix 1.0 Assessment Meetings and Members 2012/2013.........................................................................................100 Agency Performance ............................................................... 21 Significant Issues Impacting the Agency ................................. 31 Appendix 2.0 Productions with ScreenWest funding 2012/2013.........................................................................................107 Disclosures and Legal Compliance.......................................... 32 Independent Auditor’s Report .................................................. 33 Appendix 3.0 Funding Commitments 2012/2013.......................122 Statement of Comprehensive Income ...................................... 37 Statement of Financial Position................................................ 39 Statement of Changes in Equity .............................................. 41 Statement of Cash Flows ......................................................... 42 SCREENWEST ANNUAL REPORT | 2012/2013 1 Statement of Compliance Hon John Day MLA Minister for Planning; Culture and the Arts; Manager of Government Business in the Legislative Assembly. We hereby submit for your information and presentation to Parliament the Report of ScreenWest Inc for the financial year ending 30 June 2013. The Report has been prepared in accordance with the provisions of the Financial Management Act 2006. Yours sincerely Peter Rowe CHAIRMAN SCREENWEST 26 August 2013 2 SCREENWEST ANNUAL REPORT | 2012/2013 Acronyms 37 South MIFF 37° South Market MIFF Melbourne International Film Festival AACTA Australian Academy Cinema Television Arts MIPCOM Marché Internationale de Programmes AAMELP Asia Australia Media Executive Leadership Communications Program MIPTV Marché Internationale de Programmes de ABC Australian Broadcasting Corporation Television ACS Australian Cinematographers Society PFC WA Perth Film Crew (WA) ACTF Australian Children’s Television Foundation PGA Production Grant Agreement ADG Australian Directors Guild PIA Production Investment Agreement AFCA Australian Film Critics Association SAFC South Australian Film Corporation AFI Australian Film Institute SBS Special Broadcasting Service AFTRS Australian Film Television and Radio School SFF Sydney Film Festival AIDC Australian International Documentary Conference SMA Screen Music Awards AIEP Audience and Industry Engagement Program SPAA Screen Producers Association of Australia AIMC Australian International Movie Convention SXSW South by Southwest Film Festival AMCOS Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society TIFF Toronto International Film Festival APDG Australian Production Design Guild TVC Television Commercial APRA The Australasian Performing Rights Association WA Western Australia(n) ASE Australian Screen Editors Guild WAnimate Western Australian Animation Association ASP Association of Screen Professionals Inc. WASA’s Western Australian Screen Awards ASSG Australian Screen Sound Guild XML X|Media|Lab ASTRA Australian Subscription and Television and Radio Association ATOM Australian Teachers of Media AWG Australian Writers’ Guild DCA Department of Culture and the Arts DIA Development Investment Agreement FACB First Australian Completion Bond Company FTI Film and Television Institute (WA) MDA Media Development Authority, Singapore SCREENWEST ANNUAL REPORT | 2012/2013 3 Overview of the Agency 1.1 Executive Summary It has been a record year for the local screen industry. In the last financial year 32 projects entered principle photography with ScreenWest support. These projects included 10 documentary series, two feature length documentaries, three feature films, one telemovie and a television drama series. The productions included Murdoch (Electric Pictures), Comic Book Heroes (Little Star Productions), The Reckoning (Filmscope Entertainment), Serangoon Road (Great Western Entertainment), These Final Hours (8th In Line Productions) and Seasons (Joined Up Films) to name An Accidental Soldier just a few. ScreenWest invested $7.35 million in per financial year. production, which leveraged a value of production totalling $59.88 million. Importantly, Western Australian Government investment (through ScreenWest) leveraged This is the highest level of production a higher amount of production value in 2012/13 than in many previous years. For every ScreenWest has been involved in since one dollar invested by ScreenWest in 2012/13, $8.15 was leveraged in Western Australian our establishment. This level of production productions. In addition to the significant economic impact, the Western Australian brings the three-year rolling average of screen industry was also recognised at various events and festivals the world over with production in the state to $37.35 million local practitioners being acknowledged and rewarded for their craft, skills and talent. 4 SCREENWEST ANNUAL REPORT | 2012/2013 KEY INDUSTRY ACHIEVEMENTS worked on with producer Liz Kearney. • Crime thriller, Son of a Gun directed Transmission was made as part of by Western Australian expat Congratulations to all the nominees and Screen Australia’s Springboard short Julius Avery filmed in Perth, Kalgoorlie winners throughout the year who have film initiative. This led to the team and Rottnest Island during February had their dedication and skills celebrated. securing funding for their feature film, and March of 2013. The film, which stars These Final Hours, which premiered Ewan McGregor, Brenton Thwaites at the Melbourne International Film and Alicia Vikander is a tautly paced Feature film highlights Festival in August 2013. Transmission heist thriller which tells the story of a • The feature film Drift, set in the garnered much success on the festival young man’s apprenticeship to public State’s Margaret River region, opened circuit, winning numerous awards at the enemy number one. Son of a Gun will nationally across 140 screens. The St Kilda Film Festival and screening at be released in 2014. film has had festival screenings at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York The Hamptons, Rincon in Puerto Rico in 2012. (winning the festival and audience award) and Newport in the United • Western Australian Indigenous drama, States (Australian Spotlight Film, Satellite Boy, received wide acclaim Achievement in Filmmaking Award). on the international film festival circuit, Drift opened in cinemas in the United premiering at the Toronto International States (July and August 2013) and Italy Film Festival, the Abu Dhabi Film (June 2013). Theatrical releases have Festival and then having its Australian also been confirmed in Japan, South premiere at the Perth International Korea and Germany. Arts Festival’s (PIAF) Lotterywest Film Festival, an occasion which marked the first time that a Western Australian • Western Australian writer/director, film had been selected to screen in the Zak Hilditch was awarded Best program. The film went on to screen Screenplay in a Short Film at the 2nd at the Berlin International Film Festival Australian Academy of Cinema and in the Generation Kplus competition. Television Arts (AACTA) Awards in Satellite Boy was released in selected January 2013. Zak won the award for cinemas nationally on 20 June 2013. his short film Transmission which he Zak Hilditch with his AACTA Award for Best Screenplay in a Short Film SCREENWEST ANNUAL REPORT | 2012/2013 5 Television highlights: California for single documentary Jack • West Australian Australian Teachers the Ripper and documentary series, of Media (ATOM) Award nominations • Western Australian production Outback Truckers. Outback Truckers included the documentary Life company Artemis International was was also awarded a Gold Remi at the Architecturally, documentary series named Documentary Producer of the Houston International Worldfest in Who Do You Think You Are? – Series Year after receiving the prestigious April 2013. 4, and children’s television series, award for The Bombing of Darwin: Mal.com. An Awkward Truth at the Screen • Documentary Series Who Do You Producers Association of Australia’s Think You Are? – Series 4 was • The premiere of the documentary (SPAA) gala night in November 2012. nominated at the 2012 Logie Awards Chateau Chunder from Electric Established in 2001, the SPAA Awards for Most Outstanding Factual Program Pictures recorded a strong audience are presented to SPAA members and Most Popular Factual Program. for the Australian Broadcasting who have produced an outstanding project or body of work that has contributed to the advancement of the independent production industry. The Bombing of Darwin: An Awkward Truth aired on Foxtel’s History Channel in February 2012, which marked the 70th anniversary of the event. • Outback Truckers from Western Australian production company, Prospero Productions recorded a strong performance on
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