Features
Spectrum Sale: old analogue spectrum sold for $2b song
While the screen sector vacates all that old-fashioned spectrum to broadcast digitally, Telstra, Optus and TPG bought in to provide…
Shareena Clanton: I just want a job where I don't get beaten up
Aboriginal actress Shareena Clanton hit screens in Wentworth last week playing Doreen Anderson, a prisoner with a history of drugs,…
Children's Television: hard evidence for bleak picture provoking industry campaign
Screen Australia has created a landmark report on children's television production which provides the evidence to back a growing need…
ADG: 2013 dinner suggests Guild has flash evenings under control
Tina Kaufman, an expert at these things, was well pleased by the Australian Directors' Guild Annual Awards and general knees…
Ratings: Sunday, 5th May 2013
Looks like last week. Tonsils win. ABC storing stuff for later. Second ep of Mrs Biggs held its ratings pretty…
XMediaLab: back after ten year Odyssey
The X Media Lab is now ten years old, has reinvented itself, and is testing some new ideas with a…
Screen Queensland: all my friends are coming back to Brisbane (?)
After claiming that he was investigating new models of public-private partnership in screen production, Screen Queensland’s CEO Bryan Lowe is…
Distribution Future: is the triumph of digital communication a lot of analogue piss and wind?
As we hover between disk and download, cinema and long tail, some argue that digital distribution will stabilise and save…
SBS & Foxtel commit $2 million per year to local arts programs
SBS Studio and Foxtel's Local Production Fund are spending approximately $2 million per year on Australian arts programs and have…
Brief: the Soderbergh address
At ICAA, Joel Pearlman, Managing Director of Roadshow Films, was promoting Steven Soderbergh's weekend address keynoting the San Francisco Film…