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Ettamogah denies financial problems
Leigh O’Brien, Managing Director of Ettamogah Entertainment, says there are no financial problems with the company despite standing down more than 100 employees without pay.
”No, definitely not. It’s just an issue we had with the production, which we’re trying to resolve,” he told The Age.
”If you’ve got budget overruns, you’ve got to fix it up. We’ve created 120 jobs here and trained everyone in animation and there’s no financial problems whatsoever.”
The production in question is L’il Larrakins, being produced for TEN. Ettamogah has been making industry news for several weeks now …
Animation company under union alert
A production company developing an animation series for Network TEN came under the scrutiny of the Media Arts & Entertainment Alliance last week after the union advised its members some voice over artists were owed money and animators had been stood down without pay.
Melbourne based Ettamogah Films, developing Lil’ Larrakins for TEN, faces outstanding payments dating back several months for voice over artists, according to the MEAA. The company has also stood down many of its animators without pay, some of whom are owed up to three weeks pay.
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