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The Drover's Wife sells quickly, rolls into Texas
The Drover's Wife looks like the ultimate revisionist Western, turned inside out and upside down by Indigenous Australians and sent…

Box Office: Dry lunges towards $20 million as docs stay on the edges
As we run out of new Australian fiction releases, we see the beginning of a traditional pattern in the top…

Film Victoria brings low budget filmmaking mojo to inclusion and diversity program
The Originate program is a new venture in diversity which brings some agency energy into bespoke development and low budget…

Hollywood script showcase finds truth of diversity pivot
Franklin Leonard, creator of The Black List script tool, talks diversity and fake woke in the script development process with…

Box Office: Australians hang in as tentpoles hoisted in multiplexes
Blockbusters movie tentatively into our cinemas, and grab the top slots, with serious qualifications.

AIDC Zooms into its own inaugural awards program
For the documentary community, The Australian Dream is more than a fine picture suffused with controlled rage from Stan Grant.…

Netflix India faces the battle of the Bollywoods
While we watch the Feds and Netflix size each other up, the pan-global streamer is behaving differently in other territories.…

Movie Frenzy puts fat in the long tail
Distribution companies which used to rely on cinemas have been building ways of putting a tiny bit of icing on…

Feature doc makers fight back against new funding disaster
No dosh at all for less than a $1m budget. There goes the feature documentary sector, even as conventional TV…

Box Office: return of the Oz film box office drought, slowly
Local films are dribbling away, sadly, though there is not much competition.