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Walkey Awards: Rebel Films gets respectable at Walkleys
The documentary Walkley for 2012 went to Celeste Geer and Rebel Films for Then the Wind Changed, about a community…
Matchbox: ABC Head of Comedy joins independent sector
ABC Head of Comedy, Debbie Lee, is leaving the national broadcaster to take over as Director of Scripted Development at…
Australian content: sector stiffed on vague chance of ALP victory in 2013
Early indications are that the Australian television sector has been given a swift lesson in political cynicism by the events…
Albie Thoms: dead at the age of 72
Albie Thoms was both a pioneer, a staunch individualist and a beloved ratbag. Knowing he was dying of cancer, he…
Brief: Screen West gets new chair along with board changes
The new chair is Peter Rowe, while Janelle Marr and Dax Calder have been appointed and Alan Lindsay reappointed.
March of the Moguls: Levesen and the Australian implications
Such a nice rhyme. The UK considers regulating the media while its once-convictorious colony does the same. Dr O'D clanks…
Sundance: no joy in mainstream announcements
One New Zealand film - Shopping, written and directed by Mark Albiston and Louis Sutherland - but nothing so far…
Australian Delegation to India: goings on in Goa, with delegations from the usual suspects
Australian producers front up to the ultimate sales event - the Goa Film Bazaar is a gateway to 1.3 billion…
Tasmania: apples for the ABC teacher
The historian in Dr O'Donnell leads him to remember the background to the ABC's decision to cut production in Tasmania;…
The Sapphires: producer responds to our UK Box Office coverage
Producer of The Sapphires, Goalpost Pictures' Rosemary Blight, responds to ScreenHub's coverage the the film's