The policy requires all feature films applying for Screen Australia investment to be audio described from July 2011, complementing Screen Australia’s access requirement since 2007 for captioning of feature films.
The new condition complements Screen Australia’s requirement, introduced in 2007, for all feature films to be captioned.
This initiative follows recommendations from the Federal Government’s Media Access Review final report, in order to provide around 600,000 Australians who are blind or vision impaired with access to audio described feature films.
The feedback has been both positive and negative and a number of issues have been raised.
