Australian Production Sector Shrugs off Sydney Lockdown
Katherine Tulich Sydney, the capital of the Australian entertainment industry, has gone into a two-week lockdown after a surge of the highly-transmissible Delta variant of the coronavirus.The city’s stay-at-home orders have firmly shuttered all cinemas, theaters, restaurants and amusement parks. But, film and TV production has not had to halt.“Thankfully the track record of our state, New South Wales is to keep businesses open as much as possible, and if you have to leave home to work you are able to do that,” said John Schwarz of Deeper Water Films.