As new CEO Deirdre Brennan settles in and begins constructing her dream staff, Display screen Australia has promoted Grainne Brunsdon from director of content material to COO.
Brunsdon has spent greater than 20 years working for TV and movie trade orgs and funding our bodies down below. Formally beginning in her new position on April 1, she’s taking on from Michael Brealey, who left SA in December 2023.
Display screen Australia is on a mission to increase below Brennan’s management and supply extra efffective assist to the nation’s content material creators and producers.
Earlier than becoming a member of Display screen Australia in 2022, Brunsdon was the pinnacle of Display screen NSW, overseeing this territory’s funding program for supporting characteristic movies and TV sequence. Her different profession highlights embrace introducing 50:50 (a 2020 initiative addressing gender parity in Australia’s display trade) and Screenability NSW (which supplies alternatives for creators with disabilities).
Display screen Australia performs a key position in supporting native youngsters programming and allotted US$8 million to initiatives and companies concentrating on this viewers final 12 months. The org is aiming to do much more going ahead as Aussie producers grapple with extra international competitors, fewer native commissions and complicated new applied sciences.