New Screen Australia CEO Deirdre Brennan gave an early indication of her goals for the agency on day two of the Australian International Documentary Conference, including a mantra to “put the audience at the heart of everything we do”.
Brennan, who joined the agency from Canada’s WildBrain in January, was one of eight personnel to appear as part of Screen Australia’s ‘Meet the Team’ session on Monday, along with new head of documentary Richard Huddleston.
When asked by moderator and Screen Australia content director Grainne Brunsdon what she had been focusing on in her first few weeks and what she saw as the challenges for the industry going forward, Brennan said her short-term priorities were “really to understand how we work” and to reconnect back to the Australian industry after eight years away.
