Annual Report 2000 – 2001 INVESTMENT IN CONTENT FOR WORLD SCREENS Chairman's Message CONTENTS Chairman’s Message................................................................................ Pg 3 ScreenWest Board.................................................................................... Pg 5 Executive Summary - Year in Review Independent Review of ScreenWest..................................................... Pg 6 Australian International Documentary Conference........................... Pg 6 GranadaWest ............................................................................................. Pg 7 Documentary Production......................................................................... Pg 7 Drama Production..................................................................................... Pg 7 Indigenous Funding .................................................................................. Pg 8 Emerging Filmmakers............................................................................... Pg 9 Report on Activity and Operations Funding Program ..................................................................................... Pg 10 Awards ...................................................................................................... Pg 10 Visitors to the State.................................................................................Pg 11 Business Development .......................................................................... Pg 12 Details of Productions with ScreenWest Funding Support............ Pg 13 Funding Approvals .................................................................................. Pg 16 ScreenWest Staff.................................................................................... Pg 23 Panel Meetings and Members ............................................................. Pg 24 Reports and Accountability Issues ..................................................... Pg 26 Performance Indicators and Measures Opinion of the Auditor General on Performance Indicators........... Pg 29 Certification of Performance Indicators ............................................ Pg 30 Performance Indicators......................................................................... Pg 31 Financial Statements Opinion of the Auditor General............................................................. Pg 33 Certification of Financial Statements................................................. Pg 34 Statement of Financial Performance .................................................. Pg 35 Statement of Financial Position........................................................... Pg 36 Statement of Cash Flows....................................................................... Pg 37 Notes to the Financial Statements ...................................................... Pg 38 ScreenWest: Annual Report 2000 – 2001 3 Chairman's Message ScreenWest from Malcolm Long and Associates, CHAIRMAN’S MESSAGE with one of the terms of reference of the Review being the implementation of the Taskforce. The ScreenWest Board looks forward to working with Communication to specific audiences, whether to Government to advance this vision for the WA the general public or targeted community groups screenscreen industry.industry. is becoming increasingly valuable in our society. The film and television sector has a fundamental role in providing the skills to enable effective communication - communication which informs KevinKevin CampbellCampbell and entertains. It is the skills of practitioners in Chair the screen industry that ensure that technology ScreenWest Inc is used to present Western Australian stories, knowledge and locations to world audiences. As an essential part of the “new economy”, the screen industry will continue to contribute to the richness of our community in the future. The diversity of Western Australian production was once again demonstrated in 2000-2001. On the drama front, the feature film Let’s Get Skase, drama series WildKat, animation series Quads and indigenous series Mary G Show in addition to a number of short dramas, demonstrated world class Western Australian drama production. WA’s reputation for quality international documentary production was strengthened by programs such as Playing the Game, Animal X Series II, Painting Country and Selling Australia. In March 2001, ScreenWest proudly hosted the International Documentary Conference in Perth, assisting WA producers to network with international co-producers and buyers. I am pleased to see that the WA Government has acknowledged that the screen industry is an important part of our cultural activity in the State, through the Arts Policy commitment to move to implement the recommendations of the Screen Industry Taskforce Report “Content is the Key”. This year, the Ministry for Culture & the Arts commissioned the Independent Review of ScreenWest: Annual Report 2000 – 2001 3 ScreenWest Board ScreenWest Board SCREENWEST BOARD Ed Punchard Appointed June 1998 Ed is a director of Prospero Productions; a Fremantle based documentary production company Kevin Campbell, AM established in 1991. He produces compelling and award winning documentaries shot in some of the Appointed to the Board in 1994 and Chair from most extraordinary locations, such as oil rigs, desert January 1999 islands, the Antarctic and tropical rainforests. His Kevin has worked in the Australian commercial production credits include: Paying for the Piper, television industry for the past 35 years, commencing Hutan – Wildlife of the Malaysian Rainforest, Diving as an engineering technician in 1964. He was School, Selling Australia and Shipwreck Detectives. Managing Director of Channel Seven Network from 1988 and then became Chairman and Managing Director of Channel Seven Perth from 1991-1999. He Sue Milliken has worked in Perth, Adelaide and Sydney and has been instrumental in developing many of the Appointed June 1999 industry policies and practices used today. He is Sue Milliken is one of Australia’s leading producers, currently Chairman of Q Multimedium Limited, EIR with credits which include The Fringe Dwellers, Pty Ltd (an IT and communications incubator) and Black Robe, Dating the Enemy, Sirens, Paradise Data & Commerce Limited, a digital and datacasting Road, Farscape II and My Brother Jack. In addition, infrastructure development company. He is also she has managed the Australian operations of Chair of the WA Lotteries Commission, WA Academy the completion guarantor Film Finances, Inc. since for Performing Arts at Edith Cowan University and 1980. She is a former Chair of the Australian Film Chair of the Institute for Child Health Research. Commission. John Fiocco Bill Gillespie OAM Appointed July 1996 and Deputy Chair from Appointed June 1999 July 2000 Bill has been a director of the WA Academy of the John is a senior partner of the law firm Hammond Performing Arts at Edith Cowan University since Feb- Worthington and holds a part-time senior teaching ruary 1999. He has had a distinguished career as an position in Law at the University of Western Australia. arts manager in both the USA and Australia, includ- His involvement with the film industry includes ing General Director of the State Opera of South Executive Producer of the feature film Under the Australia from 1988 -1995, then through 1998 the Lighthouse Dancing, Associate Producer, Hutan - Artistic Director of the highly acclaimed Wagner Ring Wildlife of the Malaysian Rainforest and Legal production. He has taught arts management in South Adviser to a variety of documentary and multimedia Australia, Hong Kong, Japan and India. Bill holds an productions. He was also the foundation Chairman MBA in non-profit arts management from The Ander- of the Film and Television Institute and a past Board son School, UCLA, one of America’s “top ten” busi- member of the Lotteries Commission. Presently, he ness schools. He also serves on the National Board is on the Board of Directors of the Fremantle of the Australian Youth Orchestra, and adjudicated Dockers. the 2000 semi-finals and finals of the Australian Sing- ing Competition at the Sydney Opera House and Perth Concert Hall respectively. ScreenWest: Annual Report 2000 – 2001 4 ScreenWest: Annual Report 2000 – 2001 5 ScreenWest Board ScreenWest Board Melanie Rodriga family owned Perth based property development company, that the company experienced outstanding Appointed June 1999 growth and dominance to become one of Western Melanie is a Director and Screenwriter and lectures Australia’s most prolific and respected developers at Murdoch University in Screen Production and with its main niches being inner-city apartments, Writing. She has extensive experience in the retirement villages, social housing and sub-division Australian and New Zealand film and television developments. industries. She is WA Co-ordinator for the Australian Screen Directors’ Association and runs the production company Cecile B Deux Mels with John Rapsey business partner Melissa Hasluck. Melanie directed her third feature film entitled Teesh and Trude during Appointed December 1995 - Completed term, 2001. December 2000 John Rapsey, director of Rapsody Productions, is a Screenwriter, Producer and Script Editor. His credits Alastair Bryant include Haydaze (co-creator), Ship to Shore, Sweat (series creator), Fast Tracks (series co-creator) and Appointed November 2000 In Bed with Desire - 20 short films for the Arena Alastair Bryant is the Director General of the Ministry Channel