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Victoria seeks urgent approval to bring in 400 foreign cast and crew – Sydney Morning Herald
The state government will pump an additional $120 million into the screen sector as it seeks to capitalise on a boom in international production.
The stated aim of the Victorian plan is to grow the sector as a whole by making it easier for local producers to work with international commissioners. Recent examples of that include Robert Connollys film The Dry, which was produced by Made-Up Stories, the company co-founded by Hollywood-based Australian Bruna Papandrea, and the Netflix series Clickbait, shot at Docklands Studios by locally-based Tony Ayres Productions.
Increasingly, Ayres said, Hollywood figures drawn to Melbourne by circumstance…
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