Features
New Media Funding: world's most experienced veteran speaks
Andra Sheffer, who runs the three funds for Bell in Canada, has arguably more experience in external support for the…
Pinnacle Films: sharks, heelers and cane toads
Six months into life under its own name, Pinnacle Films has secured an intriguing lineup of flicks to flog in…
BIFF: something old, something new, something borrowed, plenty blue
BIFF reaches for its audience with chutzpah, sang-froid and rubber sharks, as Tina Kaufman contemplates from afar.
Red Riding Trilogy: SBS fascinates filmmakers in killer week
As crime genre takes over our TV drama, and filmmakers wrestle with fact-based fiction, Michael Winterbottom's production company has taken…
Hobbit: descent into hell
According to Wingnut Films, Warner Bros execs are coming to New Zealand to move the production to some undisclosed location…
AFTRS: looking for a new kind of producer
With a reconfigured mashup of the producing and screen business student course, AFTRS is looking for a new round of…
Arresting Audiences: Following the money
The ‘Arresting Audiences’ summit brought together a highly experienced panel for the session, ‘Following the Money’. Where does it come…
The Hobbit: actors threaten international industrial action
NZ Actors' Equity has gone public with a campaign which confronts Sir Peter Jackson, may be legally impossible, could threaten…
Alexandre Brachet: auteurs, insoucience and internet sterf
Alexandre Brachet, French internet expert, stands in his room at the Marriott Hotel in Sydney, and tries to explain himself…
Playpen: Wikileaks, Wikileaks, where do you hide?
Australia's greatest contribution to retributory chaos, Julian Assange, draws on the Dr No techology of the Cold War to defend…