Thursday 17 May, 2012
Goalpost Pictures, Joel Edgerton, Matthew Saville, international finance, an October shooting date - the Cannes announcement sets up an intriguing mainstream film.

News Feature by: Patricia Edgar
Thursday 17 May, 2012
Working on Indigenous productions is a privilege for non-Indigenous filmmakers, and can be a powerful, illuminating experience. Patricia Edgar remembers the production of Yolgnu Boy, through which she met Gulumbu Yunupingu, who died last week.

News Feature by: Tina Kaufman
Wednesday 16 May, 2012
Cutting edge fiction from Holland to Japan, inspired by real life, theatre, reality shows, interactions with the audience, and the simple density of a novel - these are some of the freshest approaches to drama on television.

News Feature by: Anne Richey
Wednesday 16 May, 2012
John Duigan, the writer/director behind Flirting and The Year My Voice Broke continues studying the marginalised in society with his new film, Careless Love, the story of a university student and prostitute in Sydney.

Wednesday 16 May, 2012
Very early evening sauciness beats later violence as an American high concept fantasy leads the way for Seven on 1.35m. Ten maxed out with Bikie Wars at 1.261m, to give it only third place for the night.

Wednesday 16 May, 2012
It`s back to haunt them all. The Voice hooks 2.199m people, and Ten has to duke it out with the ABC.

Wednesday 16 May, 2012
Parent is very angry about kid`s mocking post on Facebook. Parent makes video. Parent lives in Texas. Parent has dum-dum bullets. Kid might want to flee to Mexico.

Wednesday 16 May, 2012
$Ca345m gets you a lot of attention from funding nerds. Via the website, you can check the details in the Broadcaster Magazine overview.

Tuesday 15 May, 2012
The film which opens a festival is always political. This year, MIFF announces the gala event early, as both Sydney and Melbourne open with Asutralian films.

News Feature by: David Tiley
Wednesday 16 May, 2012
News Ltd has bought a space inside a growing titan of the Chinese film market, but the deal is convoluted enough to give risk-averse investors the horrors. Fortunately, it is small bikkies for the Murdochs.

Tuesday 15 May, 2012
The Hon Bob McMullan, (Honbob to his friends) takes over from Alaric McAusland as Chair of Ausfilm, a role which has been newly independified.

Tuesday 15 May, 2012
What do animators do? Here is some behind the scenes footage documenting the work on a stop motion film, which deploys some modern camera tricks of its own to create a cool world between the frames you are meant to see.

Monday 14 May, 2012
Stephen Wallace is a modest man, with a quiet role as historian of the Australian Directors` Guild. Here is the short account he penned for the 30th Anniversary celebrations. We hear he is doing more, and we are fascinated....

Monday 14 May, 2012
The slate has been expanded by ten, with six repeats, spending a total of almost $400,000.

News Feature by: Tina Kaufman
Monday 14 May, 2012
Political dramas are fabulously meaty, but they do carry a certain risk for a public broadcaster, which can get hammered for failing to be impartial and inoffensive. But that is what the shield of independence is for. Tina Kaufman reports..

Monday 14 May, 2012
More people want to see Her Maj glitter than want to see her loyal villagers slaughtered. Yes, The Diamond Queen outrated Midsomer Murders.

News Feature by: Dr Vincent O`Donnell
Monday 14 May, 2012
Yet another regulatory arena pops up to trouble the shiny heads of industry lawyers. This time it is gambling, and those bureacrats really do have experience with crime. Dr O\`Donnell wedges a chair under the door knob and slips a note to us down the interwebs.

News Feature by: David Tiley
Monday 14 May, 2012
If organising writers is like herding cats, managing directors is like getting bears to dance in unison. The Australian Directors` Guild honoured itself for thirty years of a pretty tough act which has shaped the industry and renewed its fighting spirit.

News Feature by: David Tiley
Monday 14 May, 2012
“Is the web the future of documentaries?” A prospect to make the blood of documentary filmmakers freeze in their veins. But this is a conference about public broadcasting, which has its own rules so the subtext is about institutional culture, the net and new ways of embracing points of view.

Friday 11 May, 2012
Australian production company Cordell Jigsaw has won the Best of Rose d`Or for its series Go Back To Where You Came From, which screened to popular and critical acclaim on SBS last year.

News Feature by: Alex Prior
Friday 11 May, 2012
Late last month, fans of Joss Whedon (The Avengers, Buffy The Vampire Slayer) went to war with Roadshow Films over its decision to release his comedy-horror feature Cabin In The Woods straight to DVD. Now the film will be released (in a limited fashion) nationally to cinemas.

News Feature by: David Tiley
Friday 11 May, 2012
The standard elements of history are a) domesticated experts, b) reconstruction and c) eyewitness accounts, either from interviews or records. What happens when broadcasters use contemporary techniques to re-embrace the idea of a people’s history?

News Feature by: Keith Barclay
Saturday 12 May, 2012
Sydney-based Odin`s Eye Entertainment (OEE) has a significant boost to business having signed an agreement with Warner Bros. Digital Distribution (WBDD) for electronic sell through (EST) and video on demand (VOD) distribution of its films via cable, satellite and broadband platforms in North America.

News Feature by: David Tiley
Friday 11 May, 2012
Public service broadcasters do children`s content - and are trusted to provide it because they are not trying to sell things to kids that parents will have to pay for. Now take all that and put it online - and the international landscape gets very inventive.

News Feature by: David Tiley
Friday 11 May, 2012
Basta means revenge in Flemish. A group of humourists turned journalists decided to make war on grotesque institutions on behalf of the ordinary people. It was a Belgian version of The Chasers... with some intriguing differences.

News Feature by: Tony Forster
Friday 4 May, 2012
Two sessions at the Forum opened, dissected and then cooked the can of worms that is the practical task of making a great idea into great content. The wit and wisdom of Vincent Burke dominated both sessions, one a panel discussion, the other a one-to-one discussion with a young producer.

News Feature by: Tony Forster
Monday 7 May, 2012
The title of this session, Change of Screen as written in the Forum programme, contains a typo, I suspect. Given the subject matter, “Change On Screen” would make a tad more sense; although“Change By Screen” might be an even more accurate title for a session aimed at exploring the nature of social activism and the possibility of achieving social change via the medium of documentary story-telling.

News Feature by: Tony Forster
Friday 4 May, 2012
The delightful thing about this session was the energy and passion of the four participants on the discussion panel. It was almost as if the one essential requirement enabling creation of successful screen content for kids was the ability to access and express one’s own inner child.

Friday 4 May, 2012
The Forum programme promised a look at what defines transmedia and a demystification of the various terms bandied about in that space, cross-media, all-media, multi-platform and 360 to name but a few.

Friday 4 May, 2012
The old adage `sex sells` is alive and kicking when it comes to storytelling in the modern age – that was the general consensus of the representatives from across the creative spectrum discussing technology at Wednesday`s `Sexy Tech` forum session.

Friday 4 May, 2012
Oscar-shortlisted filmmakers Tom and Sumner Burstyn have stopped making documentary films in New Zealand because it`s just too damn hard to make a living at it. Sumner Burstyn announced their decision at the Screen Edge Forum`s Show Me The Money session.

Friday 4 May, 2012
Frances Joseph (AUT Co Lab) wrangled the opening day session on projects going beyond traditional screen presentation. Mobile guru Laurent Antonczak (Virtuo), Steve La Hood (Story Inc) and Dr Melissa Laing (St Paul Gallery) shared their experiences on specific projects.