Features
post-TIFF 2013: too big for indies and foreign films to cut through?
László Kriston reflects on a festival growing like a vast cloud to obscure the sun of true art, and the…
Chinese Cinema: as market grows explosively, the established world production order begins to change
As Australian lawyer and China-watcher Mathew Alderson explains, the market for films in China is evolving at breathtaking speed. Village…
Ratings: Thursday, 3rd October 2013
Last week, Nine had the AFL The Footy Show. This week it ran the NRL version. What happened?
Brief: Disney learns meaning of irony over 3D patent shambles
Disney licensed IP from the Digital Domain Media Group to build 3D versions of key films. Then DDMD went bankrupt,…
Free TV Australia: the spectrum is ours, Precious-s-s-s
Speaking at the Australian Communications and Media Authority's RadComm conference, called for "spectrum certainty for broadcasters, in recognition that Australians…
QPIX: alone and unfunded with new advanced diploma
Queensland's screen development organisation, QPIX, has brushed aside the withdrawal of state government funding (and subsequent loss of tied Screen…
Cheeky Little Media: raising the ambient temperature of kids' animation
Behind the announcement by David Webster and Patrick Egerton that they have established a new children’s television outfit called Cheeky…
Brief: Iranian Film Festival starts from Brisbane
Iranian films tend to make true filmlovers happy - beautifully made, modestly conceived, from a very foreign culture and a…
Chinese Factual: initial fears before a long haul
Screen Australia's latest delegation to Beijing is the first official group to focus on factual entertainment. The role of government…
Brief: Catalonia pays homage to five Australian films
This year's Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia has once again been a fertile hunting ground for feral Australian…