Contract Management Services

Here is how this works in practice. Our contract running coordinators draft, negotiate, and administer the full Australian production paper stack alongside Sydney, Melbourne, Gold Coast, Adelaide, and Perth entertainment lawyers — crew engagements under the Fair Work Act with 38-hour standard weeks, 4 weeks annual leave, 10 days personal/sick leave, 11 public holidays, and 11 percent mandatory employer Superannuation input embedded into rate cards; MEAA (Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance) talent and crew agreements with reciprocal recognition for SAG-AFTRA, IATSE, DGA, Equity NZ, and BECTU when global talent arrives via Qantas, United, or American direct LA-Sydney flights; ACS (Australian Cinematographers Society), ADG (Australian Directors Guild), and AWG (Australian Writers' Guild) scale agreements; plus location contracts with Aboriginal Land Council consultation embedded as mandatory clauses for any shoot on Country, AIATSIS cultural protocols referenced, and Welcome to Country and Acknowledgement of Country deliverables named.

Here is the short of it. Australian contract practice tracks the Producer Offset 30 percent (federal, for Australian productions), Location Offset 30 percent (global productions with QAPE 30M AUD or more), PDV Offset 30 percent (post-prod work with QAPE 5M AUD), plus stackable state rebates from Screen NSW, VicScreen, Screen Queensland, ScreenWest, SAFC, and Screen Tasmania — every contract line maps to an ATO QAPE category so the production accountant can audit deal-flow against rebate eligibility from day one.

Here is the breakdown. We've drafted contract packages across the Matrix trilogy Sydney Disney Studios builds, Star Wars Episodes II and III, Mission Impossible 2, Moulin Rouge!, Mad Max Fury Road and Furiosa at Village Roadshow Gold Coast, Aquaman and Lost Kingdom, Thor Ragnarok and Love and Thunder, Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Men Tell No Tales, Elvis at Village Roadshow, Hacksaw Ridge near Newcastle, and the Wolverine Sydney shoot.

Australian Border Force ATA carnet handling, ATO income-tax withholding, OAIC privacy clauses, ACMA wireless licensing, CASA drone-operator agreements, and Native Title considerations following Mabo 1992 all carry standard contract templates we deploy and negotiate.