Features
Reach Rule: the reason behind the committee decision
Ian Robertson examines the reasons behind the parliamentary committee's recommendation that the 75 percent reach rule for television networks should…
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…