Performing Arts
AFTRS - back to the future, empowered by an origin story
To find the heartsong of AFTRS, CEO Neil Peplow sets high standards for outreach and diversity.
AFTRS - taking a spanner to the industry courses
Believe it or not, the screen sector is short of the right young staff. AFTRS rethinks its crucial industry courses,…
Landmark study finds diversity lagging on Australian TV
In 1999 there were only two Indigenous actors on Australian TV; that figure has thankfully increased, but diversity lags in…
What's On - AIDC, awards, screenings weird and wonderful
AIDC feed, SPA events, QAGOMA, ACMI, MCA in capital classics, and a pile of awards.
Copyright attack 'an unusually destructive force'
'Massive, unjustified, poorly researched and based on a remote and disconnected economic ideology of unusually destructive force.' That's what the…
13th Accelerator Wraps for MIFF
MIFF Accelerator, the film director professional development program held during the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF), has concluded its13th edition…
AIDC - quick hunt for new CEO
Britt Arthur, the CEO and Conference Director of AIDC, is leaving in November.
Brexit sets Chaos Monster on UK screen sector
While UK producers will face European barriers familiar to Australians, Brexit brings a heap of deeper problems too.
VCA Film and Television School remembers its first fifty years
The VCA Film and TV School has celebrated its fiftieth anniversary with a funky day and a red hot go…
Queen's Birthday honours for our national slob
This year’s Queens Birthday Honours in the screen sector are a modest haul, though both the honorees are truly irrepressible.