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Australian stars have traded the bright lights of Hollywood for Canberra s corridors of power in a bid to get more local shows on Netflix.
Actors Simon Baker, Bryan Brown, Marta Dusseldorp and Justine Clarke joined producers and senior screen industry representatives at Parliament House on Tuesday.
The group wants the government to stamp a 20 per cent local content guarantee into law for streaming sites like Netflix and Stan.
Australian stars have traded the bright lights of Hollywood for Canberra s corridors of power in a bid to get more local shows on Netflix
It would mean 20 per cent of a streaming service s Australian revenue would go towards local content.
Simon Baker and Marta Dusseldorp led a delegation of local actors and producers calling on the government to force streaming services to invest a portion of their revenue in Australian content to support jobs once the COVID “sugar hit” fades.
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Around Christmas of 2019 the veteran Australian filmmaker Nadia Tass was on holiday in New York, catching up with old friends. One day she visited the home of actors Hugh Jackman and Deborra-Lee Furness, where she was surprised to find Jackman and some of his brothers were watching one of their favourite Australian films: Tassâ delightful 1990 teen comedy
The Big Steal, starring a young Ben Mendelsohn and Claudia Karvan.
âThey were saying that they loved it,â Tass recalls, âBut at the time could they find it on any of the streaming services here? Absolutely not.â
Ben Mendelsohn with Claudia Karvan in Nadia Tassâ The Big Steal.
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Around Christmas of 2019 the veteran Australian filmmaker Nadia Tass was on holiday in New York, catching up with old friends. One day she visited the home of actors Hugh Jackman and Deborra-Lee Furness, where she was surprised to find Jackman and some of his brothers were watching one of their favourite Australian films: Tassâ delightful 1990 teen comedy
The Big Steal, starring a young Ben Mendelsohn and Claudia Karvan.
âThey were saying that they loved it,â Tass recalls, âBut at the time could they find it on any of the streaming services here? Absolutely not.â
Ben Mendelsohn with Claudia Karvan in Nadia Tassâ The Big Steal.