Performing Arts
Commercials find novel way to argue against kids' TV
The commercial networks have a once in a lifetime chance to exit kids' TV. They are good at ideas under…
What's on screen: Breaker Upperers, Wrong Kind of Black, MIFF, Koreans...
MIFF, French comedy Dr Knock and Wrong Kind of Black head a lineup which also covers the Palace doc fest…
Daley Pearson - Australian stories are 'authored and from the gut.'
What do we mean by Australian stories? Queensland producer and comic creative Daley Pearson provides a beaut answer from Coolum…
Screenrights Chief Executive Simon Lake resigns
Screenrights loses a veteran who has presided over enormous changes over twenty years. Expect Simon Lake to surface for new…
Prism - how can Australian feature production emerge from its Vale of Tears?
First tool to advance the frustrated Australian feature sector is clear thinking, backed by co-operation. Here's a good start.
Tony Ayres goes global: I feel like the guy who has the cake and eaten it.
Tony Ayres has walked away from Matchbox Pictures to become a global player. Here's why.
New York arts exec to head up Create NSW as CEO
Elizabeth W. Scott has been named Executive Director, Create NSW, heading up the State’s peak arts and screen organisation.
Nine gets ready to eat Fairfax. What makes it tasty?
The Nine and Fairfax deal is logical and prudent for shareholders etc, but what about the real stakeholders, the citizens…
Brief: SAFC builds new jobs, engages in different ways
Shifting from Arts to an Industry portfolio, the SAFC is making interesting appointments.
Suresh Ayyar, alive still in his work
For an artist, death is not final if the work lives on beyond personal memory. Editor Suresh Ayyar's friends search…