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Mint Pictures: what to do with a sporting chance
Last Friday's announcement that All3Media’s subsidiary North One Television Australia has been carried off by its management in a buy-out…
SAFC: it is not possible to have a less surprising appointment
Judy Potter has an extraordinary range of arts management experience and board roles in Adelaide. She is on the board…
AIDC 2013: Storm Surfers and the wet lens competition
Storm Surfers 3D is the closest the sector has to a soap opera, as Firelight Productions shares the process over…
AIDC 2013: Michael Loebenstein, the NFSA, and an inconvenient truth
Watching a room of archivally-obsessed filmmakers with the National Film and Sound Archive's personable leader is like watching alley cats…
AIDC 2013: the ABC Natural History Unit - a creation story
For many filmmakers, the ABC’s Natural History Unit was driven strongly by the BBC model, with those mellifluous Attenborough narrations.…
AIDC 2013: Independent Chinese documentary production
Three television businesspeople from the non-government sector in China slipped between the ying of bland generalisations and the yang of…
AIDC 2013: Evan Shapiro, Participant Media and the heroic idealism of the millenial child
Evan Shapiro is building a cable channel on the theory that the millenium generation wants to both change the world…
AIDC 2013: government commissioning editors, all in a row...
Now that we have three government channels in the FTA sector, the landscape is riven by contradictions. With such differences,…
AIDC 2013: David Lyle escorts Granny Geo into a naughty unscripted future
David Lyle probably knows more about unscripted television than any other Australian. How does he see this bastard child of…
Screenwriters' Conference 2013: What's love got to do with it
Rom-coms are box office gold but terribly difficult to write. Romantic love is a mainstay of soapies, while thwarted desire…