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Penny Chapman Uses Hector Crawford Lecture to Warn on AI, Celebrate Matchbox Legacy and Call for Bolder Australian Storytelling at Screen Forever Conference

Penny Chapman, co-founder of Matchbox Pictures and former head of drama at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), used the 2026 Hector Crawford Memorial Lecture at the Screen Forever Conference on the Gold Coast on Tuesday to issue a sharp challenge…

This article was originally published by Variety and is republished here under license.

Penny Chapman, co-founder of Matchbox Pictures and former head of drama at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), used the 2026 Hector Crawford Memorial Lecture at the Screen Forever Conference on the Gold Coast on Tuesday to issue a sharp challenge to Australian screen producers: resist the pull of the algorithm, rediscover the courage of genuine […]

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