Australia
SPARK projects financed. Joy ensues.
The AFC and AFTRS are very very happy that the SPARK projects are being financed. Last Friday's FFC meeting added…
Melbourne Documentary Group: SBS, commissioning editors and the whole damn thing
Triggered by the SBSI decision to remove the commissioning editor from Melbourne, the Melbourne Documentary Group is holding a forum…
Cross platform producers getting networked
Here's a very interesting move, which producers around Australia might emulate: digital media practitioners in South Australia have formally come…
LAMP: who has the first round?
The Laboratory of Advanced Media Production (LAMP), the national cross-platform production initiative from the Australian Film Television and Radio School…
In The Bin Currumbin Film Festival winners
Over 5,000 people attended the In The Bin Currumbin Film Festival. Here are the winners of the short films that…
Script readings take extra step
ScreenPlay is a monthly Melbourne event providing script readings for film writers. Supported by the AFC, sponsored by ACMI and…
AFTRS Centre for Screen Business gets first run in public
AFTRS launches Australia’s first Centre for Screen Business. Nobody drowned.
Stokes gets first taste of grilling
Kerry Stokes added to the short list of Great Austraiian Media Quotes when he said that Packer told him at…
Review to drive digital take-up
There''s another word for this - surrender. The Government is holding a review into the Great Digital Switchoff.
''Middle of Nowhere'' begins shoot
Working Title are pleased to report that principal photography for the feature film MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, directed by Ringan Ledwidge,…