Screen Producers New Zealand (SPADA) and fourteen other TV and
film trade associations from around the world have formed the
Global Creative Alliance (GCA), a new partnership to encourage more
effective international collaboration between producers and to
increase opportunities for co-productions. Trade bodies from
Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Croatia, France, India, Italy,
New Zealand, Portugal, Singapore, South Korea, the USA and the UK
signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in Cannes recently. As
part of the MOU, all parties commit to sharing information such as
market intelligence and reports that will benefit each other. They
also endeavour to arrange delegations to visit each other to share
best practice and enable producers to foster new creative
relationships. Each party will also act as an administrator for the
Production Platform (www.productionplatform.tv), an online
networking tool available to TV companies worldwide. It allows
registered users to pitch ideas to each other for international
collaboration and communicate via the tool to develop those
ideas.
