Features
BIFFDOCS 2012: luck, vision, education, irony and the rise and rise of Lauren Greenfield
The Queen of Versailles is both a rip-roaring film about some outrageous characters, and a moral fable about the economic…
March of the Moguls: Australia's grimmest televsion figures
Comparing the audience figures over a decade, Dr O'D discovers a shambles of tumbling brands and radical changes in Australian…
BIFF documentary award: backs Queen of Versailles
The winner of the succulent $25,000 BIFFDOCS award is... (drumroll) The Queen of Versailles, from venerated photographer Lauren Greenfield.
ABC Tasmania: response from Friends of the ABC
Public broadcasting needs all the friends it can get, but the response of Friends of the ABC (Vic) to the…
Flying Bark: To Bee, or not to 3D Bee?
Flying Bark Productions has announced that it will be producing a "3D stereoscopic movie" of the children's television property Maya…
Ratings: Wednesday, 21st November 2012
Seven slaughters all. Ten over ABC by a whisker. All cops.
Ratings: Thursday, 22 November 2012
Redfern Now holds its audience at 620,000.
Cameras: Is that new camera in the window oh so last week already?
Erika Addis, DoP and teacher, contemplates some tasty offerings and the whirlwind of change that engulfs them. Enter some mysterious…
IDFA: notes from the front line of distribution
Ruari Elkington, the theatrical/acquisitions manager at Antidote Films, is at the IDFA documentary festival and market in Amsterdam. Torn from…
Box Office: 19th November 2012 - depressing
No way these films deserve their response in the marketplace. Except for maybe Housos.