Performing Arts
Exports can double size of sector, claims Screen Producers Australia
SPA pushes harder on export policy, which is a different can of hopes and worms.
Government help for sector has sting in tail
Fletcher v Burke over the government's determination to pay international producers. The local sector is not so lucky.
Screen News in Brief: MIFF fires up, impact producer fund, NITV in footy culture doc
Our biggest cinephile event has us in a tizz, but there's lots of other news and views in this fortnight's…
Anna Kaplan: You have to live and breathe your message
Greening Australia's screen industry is the goal for our best-known Impact Producer, the most recent recipient of the Natalie Miller…
Global screen industry grinds back into gear
Big gestures are being made around the world to get the studios humming but what how is the rest of…
Banijay buys Shine Endemol, shifts international balance of power
Banijay, once the cuddly friend of Screentime Australia, has absorbed Shine Endemol to emerge as a modern version of King…
Screen News in Brief: A new vision from SPA, plus rescues, reprieves and cuts
Festivals, film openings and awards continue. This fortnight's eclectic roundup shows an industry pivoting painfully, but still alive and planning…
Russel Howcroft's recipe for success: keep laughing and stay tough
Imbued with the spirit of competition, one of our favourite larrikins sees the fight over revenue and regulation in TV…
Community TV saved by the bell, on national TV
For the umpteenth time, the government stages another cliffhanger before giving community TV an extra year to do what it…
ABC: how to say pull the other leg politely on cuts
Here's a few wrinkles in the latest cuts fight, from the prospects for the indy sector to the long term…