Patricia May Edgar AM is an Australian author, television producer, educator and media scholar, best known as the founding director of the Australian Children's Television Foundation.
Dr. Patricia Edgar, pictured in 2008
Australian Children's Television Foundation
The Australian Children's Television Foundation (ACTF) is a national non-profit children's media production and policy hub. The ACTF helps develop children's television policy; distributes and pays for Australian children's television series; supports new children's media; and develops screen resources for the education sector. The ACTF provides funding and support to independent Australian producers and writers of children's programs.
Victorian Arts and Educational Services Minister Norman Lacy, with Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser as he launches the Australian Children's Television Foundation in the Treasury Gardens, Melbourne in February 1982.