Features
Crowd Funding: government reviewing equity investment model
The Australian Government is reviewing crowd funding, but the focus is equity investment, and no change is expected for short…
Festival des Antipodes 2013: the world's only real festival of antipodean films
As always, the Festival des Antipodes allows an open but idiosyncratic take on Australian, New Zealand and now Indonesian films.…
Ratings: Tuesday, 17th September 2013
Tuesday night stays dull, dull, dull as nothing moves and the marketing gurus at Ten tell their grumpy masters that…
ABC2: three years on, pushing for an audience
Three years down the track, with the ABC exuberantly running a micro-branding campaign using indy local acts which tell the…
Screen NSW: announces $1.5 million investment
Screen NSW has announced $1.5 million in three new adult television dramas, three children’s series, five factual series and two…
Toronto 2013: going around the block and beyond the edge - the good oil on whole fest from true insi
László Kriston, professional festival devotee, interviews Jane Scboettle, festival powerhouse. With formal responsibility for our region, she discusses the fate…
Toronto: 2013: Felony feels the benefits of Beneroya
That one of Hollywood’s leading venture capitalists was funding almost half of a mainstream Aussie movie’s budget is concrete proof…
Ratings: Sunday, 15 September 2013
With two networks over thirty percent, life is hard for everyone else. We hoped for more for An Accidental Soldier.
Brandis and Turnbull: key figures for sector in new government
Senator George Brandis returns to the Arts portfolio, while Malcolm Turnbull is of course the Minister for Communications. But who…
TIFF 2013: two more Australian films to go round the block at Canadian fest
Around the Block and The Canopy join The Railway Man, Felony, Mystery Road and Tracks at North America's prime festival.…