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Federal Politics: sector runs well without minister
After two working days without a Minister for Communications and Broadband, the sector is still broadcasting without a single hitch.…
Gristmill: doing it the way they want to seems to be working
Gristmill, known for The Librarians and Very Small Business and Small Tales and True has now gone positively tiny with…
Beyond the Cinema: Screen Australia responds to critique
Frustrated by the distribution guarantee bottleneck, filmmakers are questioning its role in Screen Australia decisions. Kathleen Drumm, head of marketing,…
Screen Australia: multiplatform madness loosed with new money
The revised Multi-platform Drama Production program from Screen Australia has yielded a group of creative teams that is actually (gasp)…
Brief: Rover follows the Bling Ring onto slate of company in a hustling hurry
The Rover, written and directed by David Michôd frfom a Joel Edgerton story', produced by Liz Watts of Porchlight Pictures…
Brief: latest 2013 tranche of production from Screen Australia
$15.5m on three features, six adult TV series and three kids' series adds up to a monster board meeting and…
Playpen: warped moments as robot flick heads for feature finance
Strategy in action - Warp (cousin of Warp Australia) releases a short on the net to support financing for a…
Gatsby: computer magic behind the effects
Chris Godfrey, the VFX supervisor on The Great Gatsby, has posted a reel of before and after shots, in which…
SPAA: lobbying breakfast attracts key ministerial figures from both sides of politics
SPAA organised a semi-public breakfast on Wednesday which pitted both Tony Burke, the current Minister for the Arts against his…
Playpen: scarey fun with a rotoscope
Since 2008, English animator Joseph Pierce has made three short films about public and domestic life in the UK. They…