Advocating for appropriate policy reform to support Australian stories on screen will be among the chief priorities of the new Australian Directors’ Guild (Adg) executive director, Alaric McAusland.

Further, he hopes to support directors of underrepresented backgrounds through diversity and inclusion initiatives, and uphold the Adg’s now almost 40 year tradition of protecting the creative and economic rights of its members and their teams.

McAusland’s appointment was announced by the guild today, as well of that of Ana Tiwary, who will take on the new position of strategy and development executive.

Starting November 16, McAusland succeeds Diana Burnett, who departs to take up a new role as a studio manager at Animal Logic.

McAusland was most recently chief operating officer at Grace – A Storytelling Company in LA, and prior to that Deluxe Entertainment Services Group Anz MD for some nine years. He has also been the general manager of Atlab,...