Television

ScreenWest: building its bundle of local production companies
ScreenWest plays Santa just as the feds turn scrooge. A small but useful win for national diversity.

Six Week Film School, TV & Radio Presenting, Production Design, Short Film Screenwriting & More!
Skill-up with an AFTRS Open short course. January Summer School includes SIX WEEK FILM SCHOOL (enrol by 21 Dec) plus…

Screen Australia horror cuts in squalid backroom shakedown
Government cuts Screen Australia for third time in three years, to fund Hollywood to bring those footloose productions to Australia.

Being part of the arts
Encouraging transparency and participation, the 2016 ArtsHub Conference will provide the sector with an opportunity to get answers from industry…

Sweating little golden globes for an Austral 2015
Sundance looks bare, Blanchett has been dropping off the radar but now the Golden Globes have made a serious statement.

Screen Forever 2015: Working with China
Oh boy! Fragmentation of the audience is one thing, but the fragmentation of an audience of 1.6 billion is something…

Screen Australia's Gender Matters Program - maybe it won't work
Does Gender Matters truly redefine the rules of the funding game, or are the dice loaded against success? Three key…

Three ways Screen Australia can actually improve diversity in the industry
Deb Verhoeven adds a timely note of caution in the current euphoria about positive moves on gender in the screen…

The Bélier Family
A memorable lead turn and thoughtful stylistic choices boost a familiar, feel-good offering that's warm but wanting otherwise.

Fifth AFI/AACTAs completely as expected
If you had bet on the most rationally predictable outcome in each category, you would have been pretty well on…