Television
Box Office: Cab film still doing well on 23 August 2015.
The Last Cab to Darwin is beginning to look like a money truck on the road north.
Holding the Man: from page to stage to screen
The ‘monumentally loved’ memoir by Timothy Conigrave is now a feature film: we track its convoluted journey to Australian cinemas.
Seven keys to a documentary renaissance
Battered and compulsively evolving, independent documentaries are challenged to justify themselves at MIFF. Of course, they succeed.
An all-star cast for the first SUFF masterclasses
The University of Sydney’s contemporary art school, Sydney College of the Arts (SCA), has announced a weekend film masterclass program…
Southpaw
A knockout performance from Jake Gyllenhaal helps this standard boxing movie try to punch past its formula.
TIFF 2015: the Australians come in two by two
The Australian presence at the Toronto International Film Festival has built nicely, with two new announcements.
Intro to Directing, Production Office 101, Summer School 20% Discount & More @ AFTRS Open
Last chance for August courses: SHORT FILM BOOT CAMP and PRODUCTION OFFICE 101, Linda Aronson’s SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT, Elissa Down’s INTRO…
Box Office Bizarro: 17 August with an evil moment in The Gift
Joel Edgerton's The Gift does well on wide release in the US. It also scored a truly strange and ugly…
Eight radical ways to change arts funding
Were any arts funding bodies or philanthropists brave enough to implement these suggestions from the US they might come close…
The evolving role of the critic
Demon? Angel? Tired victims of change? MIFF unleashes formidable talent to explore the evolving role of the critic in the…