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Sydney Film Festival 2020 finds four compelling winners
Free diving, performative eating, vagina power and the horrors of internet stardom—all the winners at the virtual edition of the…
Owners switch off Porchlight, street goes dark
Porchlight Films, a key Sydney-based company woven into the careers of so many screen people, has left the fray.
Greens get Senate agreement to nail down Netflix
The world will not be transformed by this moment of Parliamentary approval, but at least the Senate seems to get…
Defiance, progress and big ideas celebrated in international kids' TV awards
Australians are used to doing well at prime kids' TV moment the international Prix Jeunesse Awards. But this is the…
Plucky NZ conference creates New World Order by going online
Here's the nitty gritty of running a market based conference online. Challenging, enraging and ultimately a boon, according to Doc…
Can we out-compete the world in production hunt?
Australia looks good in the international marketplace but the competition will get fiercer and fiercer. We have to urgently solve…
Queens Birthday Honours 2020 finds two fierce and modest film and TV veterans
Writer and director Jan Sardi, and production designer Robbie Perkins are significant in very different ways in lives well lived.
Big stock footage companies provide a handy freelance niche for cinematographers
The market for stock footage on the net is becoming a specialised niche of its own as society becomes more…
See-Saw Films brings an Australian touch to the strangest Cannes Festival of all
The appearance of Ammonite at the Cannes Film Festival is just words on a piece of paper, but they cast…
Return of the humble drive-in
The revival of drive-ins counters isolation, drawing on the magic of cinema in the open air and pointing to a…