Visual Arts
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…
The secret love affair between pirates and creators
New research and a new lobby group in the screen sector rewrites the playbook on the approach to piracy.
Will crowdfunding become even more useful with new legislation?
Crowdfunding could become even more useful to the arts with some new legislation expected to be introduced by the end…