Byron Shire - Developing Regional Cultural and Screen Industries
Project Summary
Byron Shire Council is providing leadership in developing the Cultural and Screen Industries through integrated cultural and economic development planning. This has included support for a regional Creative Industries Strategy, a review of its filming policy with local industry association Screenworks, and targeting screen and cultural industries in the Community Economic Development Plan and the development of a Cultural Plan.
Council’s leadership included facilitating “East of Everything”, the first regionally based television drama series, by supporting the grant application process, waiving all location fees, and facilitating a partnership with the traditional owners, the Arakwal people. Council facilities, including the Council Chambers, are featured in the production.
The locally written and produced series employed 94 local cast and crew members, and injected $1.6 million into the local economy. Council supported the series because it would boost the growing local screen industry and because the stories celebrate local culture and values.
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On location in Byron Bay - some of the cast and crew of "East of Everything
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Byron Shire Council Chambers being used as a location in "East of Everything", with Susie Porter as Cr Eve Pritchard.
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Richard Roxburgh on location in Byron Shire as Art Watkins, in "East of Everything"
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How many filmmakers can you fit on a rock? 94 local crew and cast members were employed on making "East of Everything".
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