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Television Funding: NZ puts Australian system into turmoil
The NZ government has announced that its television industry will receive a 40% rebate, while the Australian industry is stuck…
Jenny Woods and Film Finances: bonding over twenty years
'Completion Bond': [n] - a legal contract which ensures that any heart attacks before the completion of a film will…
Queensland: cultured one day, barbarous the next
The Queensland government may not notice, but it has been in a world of pain in both the arts and…
Brief: nice neat ABC controller model is no more
Remember how ABC1 had Brendan Dahill as Controller, and ABC2 had Stuart Menzies to create a separate identity for the…
Andrew Plain: dies in Sydney Hospital
Andrew Plain, the remarkable and much loved sound designer, sound editor and supervising sound editor, proprietor of Huzzah Sound, died…
Berlinale: Australians confront St Nick in early announcements
While the complete Generation programme won't be announced until mid-January, twelve titles including two from Australia are teased out pre-Christmas
Toronto: reviews for Australian films emphasise arthouse appeal
The Railway Man has left key industry reviewers with pursed lips, though the papers generally concede it got a standing…
AIDC 2014: covers come off on a new design
The Australian International Documentary Conference has gone from makeover to full chassis rebuild as it sets out to deliver on…
Screen Music Awards 2013: let their song be sung
As always the musicians delivered one of the niftiest awards nights on the calendar, but with an unusual interruption. Antony…
Dennis O'Rourke: Aliquando et insanire iucundum Connollius
You have to hand it to the documentary community - they know how to turn grief into a story. Exhibit…