Features
Hong Kong Filmart 2013: recipes for change
Following the success of Ang Lee's Life of Pi Filmart's conference programme offered sessions on the ever-popular approach of developing…
Simon Crean: loses Arts Ministry portfolio
In a roller-coaster day of dreadful ironies, the government pulls out of media reform, the only changes threaten the independent…
Screen Australia: documentary tranche announced as one off figures improve
$2.3m out the door, ten documentaries financed, interesting emphasis on contract directors.
Hong Kong Filmart's New Generation Digital Entertainment Summit 2013: playing to win
A couple of days before the Hong Kong Rugby Sevens opened, less energetic players gathered for Filmart's New Generation Digital…
Brief: mayhem on May 3 for ADG
The Australian Directors' Guild will hold its annual awards night on May 3rd, and tickets are now on sale. Given…
Ratings: 20th March 2013
Shaun Micaleff's mad found some acceptance, though the night is dominated by food and auctions. Want to sell a giant…
Ratings: 21st March 2013
SBS on 5.2%. Not bad.
Christopher Doyle: fabulous rant from genius Australian DOP
"The lunatics have taken over the asylum, but you know we have other asylums in other parts of the world…
Sustainability: documentary, philanthropy and the public interest
Blocked from access to public money and airwaves, documentary makers are forming alliances with the philanthropic sector. The Documentary Australia…
Media Reform: Greens extract unexpected concession for screen sector
The Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (Convergence Review and Other Measures) Bill 2013, utterly unchanged after desperate lobbying by the screen sector,…