Visual Arts

Rude health or rattling its bones? Screen Aus gets forensic on the drama sector
Uncertain times, pockets of despair, companies growing up and away - the annual Drama Report adds welcome data to the…

Beyond the mainstream - the AACTA Awards with something fresh
Here are the AFI/AACTA categories which nurture young filmmakers, sustain extreme doco makers and honour the most popular films in…

Brief: Sydney event about balancing parenthood and entrepreneurship
Sooner or later creative parents emerge from the new baby haze to think about small business. Find out what happens…

Quentin Kenihan - A Qulogy for my mate
Write and director Shane McNeil reflects on the death of his friend and colleague Quentin Kenihan who died on October…

Sharing secret producer business and staying realistic
Producers are 'in charge of the resources', in Andrena Finlay's neat but bland phrase. What does that really mean?

Sue Austin's underwater wheelchair is a blow for freedom
The Adelaide Film Festival runs a remarkable underwater cinematic spectacle which turns disability inside out and upside down

Humanising the screen industry with statistics and a plan
Raising children in the screen sector is hard - but there are useful initiatives that see the industry in a…

The Scribe - Graham Freudenberg, shaper of power, poet of ambition
Graham Freudenberg holds high the flag for decent public discourse as we hold our noses in political sludge.

Defining the Australian story - hunting a dream within a dream
Globally focused director Cate Shortland takes serious issue with our favourite fuzzy idea.

No more hiding the babies
A new pilot program aims to help women in the screen industry whose careers have been impacted by parenting and…