Television
Brief: Byron Bay Film Festival to highlight production shenanigans
Its not that we actually embody the word Schadenfreude, but screen people do delight in pictures about other screen people…
Show Me the Magic: Don McAlpine reveals and conceals as he steps in front of the lens himself
Cinematographer Erika Addis contemplates a feature documentary about Don McAlpine, a towering figure in her own profession. The search for…
Tropfest winner announced
Victorian filmmaker Nicholas Clifford has been announced as the winner of the 21st Tropfest, the largest short film festival in…
How to Survive a Plague
David France’s rousing documentary poignantly and exactingly details the fight against HIV/AIDS and the apathy of governments and the medical…
Mardi Gras celebrates best queer films
Foxtel’s World Movies channel has partnered with Queer Screen and Sydney’s Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras to present six of…
Berlin 2013: little rocket scores for Australia
The Rocket and Satellite Boy were the Australian features in Berlin this year, both in the Generation section for young…
AFI/AACTA: retrenchments as AFI considers hacking into awards
The Australian Film Institute, home of the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts, is contemplating its red ink and…
Tropfest Jr: Monster of a win
Ben McCarthy (NSW) has won Trop Jr, the biggest short film festival for little people with a big imagination. Ben’s…
Promised Land
Gus Van Sant’s latest film is a fictionalised account of the impact of fracking on a small farming community.
Africa TV series edited over climate change comment
The BBC has edited an episode of David Attenborough’s nature series ‘Africa’ to remove a comment about climate change.