SPAA Conference moves to Melbourne
The Screen Producers Association of Australia will move its annual conference from Sydney to Melbourne this year.
The event – Australia’s biggest film and television production conference – will be held in Melbourne for the next three years, as of this November, and brings to an end a decade of the event in Sydney.
Louise Asher, Victoria’s minister for innovation, services and small business and tourism and major events made the announcement, adding that the Logies would stay in Melbourne for another five years.
Asher said: “I am delighted that the Coalition Government has been able to secure the SPAA Conference, and that the Logies will remain in their rightful home in Melbourne for another five years. Attracting a high profile event such as the SPAA Conference to Melbourne and retaining the Logies shows the Coalition Government’s ongoing commitment to the screen industry.”
I note that Geoff Brown didn’t tell us how much money was coughed up.
It’s sad, rather poignant, that someone still thinks the Logies event is worth keeping.
The Logies is like dress-up night at a rural RSL Club – an embarrassment to everyone concerned.
But I suppose it’s a harmless delusion for an industry in palliative care.
Yes Mike – rather like advertising industry award nights (apart from the fact that the ad industry hands out way more gongs every year).