Features
Ratings: Tuesday, 28th January 2014
Ten runs a cruddy 15.1% while the ABC scrapes 21%. Seven has the category killers but is much less triumphant…
Batam Studio: changing the facilities landscape one mangrove at a time
In which our correspondent, Dr O'D, turns into a modern day Mr Kurtz, and travels to a remarkable Indonesian studio..…
Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum 2014: this year, no Australasian action
The Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum is a fascinating window into the exploding Asian and Pacific production market dedicated to…
Babadook: that sale to IFC Midnight
Part of the hot news for Australians from Sundance was the sale of The Babadook to important international markets. But…
AACTA 2014: Bazzing the Living Daylights out of it
Our resident AACTA expert Rochelle Siemienowicz stays off the crab and champers to deconstruct the 3rd AACTA Awards Luncheon, and…
Sundance: Sophie Hyde wins after 52 Tuesdays
Sophie Hyde has taken the World Cinema directing award at the Sundance Festival for 52 Tuesdays, made through the Adelaide…
AACTA 2014:the first batch of winners
Here is the list… Gatsby has everything not nailed down and producers may well have brought claw hammers in their…
Vera Wasowski: This Day Tonight producer still active on ABC
A child survivor of the Holocaust, Vera Wasowski became an ABC researcher and assistant producer, active on This Day Tonight,…
Sundance: in money terms, more a shuffle than a dance
As Sundance heads into its final weekend, there's been lots of love spread around but little cash. Before the festival…
Hoodlum: leads out High-end Television Development program
Screen Australia's High-end Television Development program is a modest niche which symbolises enormous changes and points to rich possibilities. No…