At Ausfilm’s 2018 AGM held on Thursday 16th August at Fox Studios the Chair of Ausfilm, the Hon. Bob McMullan announced the results of the election of two corporate member positions on the Ausfilm Board.

Existing Board members, Zareh Nalbandian from Animal Logic and Tony Clark from Rising Sun Pictures were both re-elected to the Ausfilm Board for another three-year term. There were four nominees in this year’s Board election which are elected by the Ausfilm corporate membership.

The Ausfilm Board members are:

The Hon. Bob McMullan (Independent Chair)

Corporate Members
Zareh Nalbandian, Animal Logic (Deputy Chair)
Wayne Borg, Fox Studios Australia
Simon Rosenthal, Method Australia
Tony Clark, Rising Sun Pictures
Lynne Benzie, Village Roadshow Studios

Screen Agency Board Members (incl. designated observer)
Elizabeth W. Scott, Create NSW
Caroline Pitcher, Film Victoria
Graeme Mason, Screen Australia
Tracey Vieira, Screen Queensland
Seph McKenna, Screenwest
Courtney Gibson, South Australian Film Corporation (SAFC)

Michael Brealey (Create NSW) and Richard Harris (Screen Australia) left their positions during the year and Jenny Tosi (Film Victoria) and Ian Booth (Screenwest) had announced their departure at last year’s AGM. So we had quite a few new Board members to welcome: Courtney Gibson joined the Board as the CEO of the SAFC as well as Caroline Pitcher for Film Victoria, Seph McKenna for Screenwest and Elizabeth W. Scott for Create NSW.

At the AGM the Chair and CEO welcomed the new Board members and re-capped the year which is also the 20th anniversary year for Ausfilm.

But this wasn’t the only reason to celebrate. In 2018 the Federal Government also introduced the AUD$140 million Location Incentive to supplement the existing 16.5% Location Offset tax rebate. Applications have opened and Ausfilm is looking forward to more productions locating to Australia or completing their post, sound, music or visual effects with Australia’s talented and creative post and VFX companies.

Any questions relating to Ausfilm’s AGM or Board please email Nick Herd, Head of Policy and Research at Ausfilm.