Performing Arts
ABC appoints Rebecca Heap to bring digital into program strategies
With the appointment of Rebecca Heap as Head of Audience and Digital, the ABC gambles again on the internet. Well,…
Small players making it in global gaming market
Developers from tiny markets like Australia are not necessarily disadvantaged when making games go global - a marked contrast to…
What the arts can learn from games development
No art form connects with its audience more viscerally than gaming: it's time everyone else paid attention.
AIDC 2016: Roger Jackson, Kinonation and the global opportunity of VOD
Indie-friendly VOD is alive, kicking and even easy, if you don't get cynical on the way.
Magnus Temple, reality TV and a better view of humanity
While so much true life large scale filmmaking wallows in exploitation, Magnus Temple makes tender series about ordinary people and…
Tomorrow's Parties
Despite an interesting premise and solid performances, Tomorrow's Parties dystopic visions limit the emotional pull.
Development Methods: Bryan Elsley and the hard facts of an enchanted future
Bryan Elsley, who ran the Deadlock emerging writers scheme in Byron Bay, has some fascinating ideas about development, authenticity, new…
Deadlock: unlocking some ideas about development to the scent of green papaya
New audiences, new stories - how can we find a development process to match them and a new generation of…
Accounting for low budget producers
New micro-accounting production accounting services are targeting the needs of low budget filmmakers and digital creatives.
BBC Natural History becoming lone, proud beast in a threatened world
Natural history films have a special place in all our hearts, but filmmakers and broadcasters must face the grim fact…