Features
Ratings: Sunday, 2nd June 2013
Not a bad night for the ABC, with Whitlam followed by Paper Giants to provide a strong sense of local…
Brief: Studio Canal appoints director of TV/digital sales
Tim Stuart will cover the TV/digital sales desk for both Studio Canal and Tandem Communications, which came under the French…
Tropfest: falls into clutches of SBS2
Abandoning all pretensions to a massive audience, Tropfest opts for the perfect partner instead. SBS2 will do the broadcast honours…
Deals: Curious gets Touch of Sin, Belgians get SheZow
Curious Distribution has picked up the Australia and New Zealand rights to Cannes Film Festival Best Screenplay winner, A Touch…
Yothu Yindi frontman dies, aged 56
The former Australian of the Year died overnight at his home in the northeast Arnhem Land community of Yirrkala.
Gatsby: defiant Australian audiences wave flags, chant in foyers
Not only did Australian audiences pour out for The Great Gatsby, so did the critics. Or so Village Roadshow claims.
Noel Monkman: the iconically Australian film pioneers you have never heard of
The ancestral beings of the Australian film industry are well known and revered, from Lotte Lyall to the Chauvels, Damien…
VFX TV Workflow: realising the impossible dreams
Cinema scale VRFX, with its vision and fantastically disciplined workflow, is too complex for television, right? This is how they…
Vale John Sumner: father of Australian actors and writers
Back in the 1950s, John Sumner did something truly shocking: he mounted a professional production of an Australian play, Ray…
Senate Estimates May 2013: ABC admits to programming black hole, gets caught in accusations of race
The transcript for the May 2013 post-budget Senate Estimates suggest that the ABC Managing Director Mark Scott had a pretty…