Features
Distribution: are Australian filmmakers simply wasting their time?
With three key Australian distributors on the podium, a CinefestOz audience played with some honest facts and some ghastly fears.…
Brief: Anita Jacoby back in play
Once a key component of Zapruder's Other Films with Andrew Denton, Anita Jacoby has been appointed managing director of ITV…
Martha Coleman: Screen Australia head of development to move to Goalpost
Asked about her future after leaving her post as head of development at Screen Australia in December, Martha Coleman has…
Ratings: Thursday, 29th August 2013 - Sydney loves its bananas dressed up
Seven by 3% as Auntie continues to celebrate Upper Middle Bogan and a bit of oomph on Thursday.
Documentary Stoush (4): voices from the Big Machine
The sound and fury prompted by Bob Connolly's Once My Mother speech points to deep frustrations in the wider independent…
Documentary Stoush (5): One-off documentaries - the ratings evidence
Jennifer Crone, who has worked in the UK and Australia, inside broadcasters and as a freelancer, wants to argue that…
CinefestOZ 2013: behind every pleasure is a decent business plan
Ultimately, experience of CinefestOZ mashes food and film into one whirl of pleasure. But Sandy George follows a story of…
Documentary Stoush (3): crusaders storm email barricades
Phil Craig, Head of Factual at ABC TV, took issue with the Connolly speech, which led to this spirited email…
Ratings: Wednesday, 28th August 2013 - other networks Gruening at unexpected ABC power
Four networks in the twenties, while the ABC scores 22.4% - a stunning result in its own terms.
Newsgathering: remembering a glimpse of hell
The modern techniques of observational filmmaking were pushed along hugely by the Vietnam War. CBS has posted a remarkable story…