Features
ASTRA Awards: back with a snappy title or two
The Australian Subscription Television and Radio Association (ASTRA) has announced the ASTRA Industry Excellence Awards finalists, which includes the snappiest…
Kidscreen: an Ambience of Liberated Chocolate in rarefied company
Kidscreen, unlike most industry awards, gives just seven prizes in the creative talent category. Two of them went to The…
March of the Moguls: surely not more of the same in the ratings game
Just as the old business model of commercial free-to-air television is near dead and buried the ratings game had radically…
Ratings: Sunday, 10/02/13
It is as if they never left! And indeed, they didn't really - they just weren't official since late November.…
Brief: reminder about Don Macalpine Film
Show Me the Magic, the biopic about honojured and treasured Australian cinematographer Don Don McAlpine, is running on Wednesday night…
ABC: extra $10m for ABC News and Current Affairs
In a rare moment of great news, ABC director of news Kate Torney announced to her staff that the government…
Screen Australia: reflections on an evolving ecology of short films
In 2009, Screen Australia defined its approach to short film around four programs covering animation, completion, Springboard and the Raw…
Matchbox Pictures: Underground - a theatrical release and a sales campaign
Robert Connolly's Footprint Films will give telemovie Underground: The Julian Assange Story a limited theatrical release as part of a…
Flickerfest: cranks up travelling circuit for 2013
Flickerfest leads out the festivals short film circuit for 2013 with a tour which will reach 43 destinations across the…
Diversity: industry knickers in Tasmanian twist
Last Friday, the Senate Enquiry unhandily called 'The Australian Broadcasting Corporation's commitment to reflecting and representing regional diversity' held a…