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Dr Romaine Moreton, Tanya Hosch. Image: AFTRS
Netflix has announced its ‘Netflix Indigenous Scholarship Fund’ in collaboration with the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) to support and encourage First Nations storytelling.
Netflix is providing $515,000 to fund the project over a two-year period, with a selection panel from AFTRS allocating the funding as they see fit.
The funding is undoubtedly a huge win for diversity in the Australian media landscape. Considering it was just last year that the Media Diversity Report revealed that just 2.1 per cent of on-screen media talent in Australia identifies as Indigenous, this is an important and long overdue step in the right direction.
A painting by WA Australian of the Year Prof Helen Milroy.
“THIS is just about my favourite day of the year,” National Museum of Australia director Mathew Trinca exulted this morning (December 16) when welcoming the state and territory recipients of the 2021 Australian of the Year Awards and launching an exhibition themed “Reflect, respect, celebrate”.
Earlier, Aboriginal Elder Paul House had urged all those present to live “a respectful way of life” before Dr Trinca said: “It makes us think about what it is to live in Australia when you have to choose one object, reduce your life down to just one thing.”