Surveillance and Film: bringing ASIO to your home

Ordinary folk can now take hours of ASIO footage home and run through it frame by frame. Ah, the shame…

Piracy: new moves, as the audience speaks

A flurry of piracy news adds some new research, sees some justice delivered, and raises some older questions.

Web Series: international co-pro meets branded entertainment meets dreams of empire

Brief: changes at top of anti-piracy crew

Mark Day takes over from Neil Gane to lead AFACT forward.

Is critical dialogue a dying art?

Recent debate on The Conversation serves an opposition between print and online media, but online reviewing deserves a fair go.

Files can’t wait: the future of the National Film and Sound Archive

The NFSA has been conducting a fence-mending exercise with stakeholders after its recent restructure drew an angry reaction.

Backlot: becoming a teeny-weeny empire

As cinemas get smaller and smaller, some commercially savvy operators are setting up a micro-network.

SBS: announces comedy runway finalists

Comedy Runway is a nation-wide initiative to assist in the development of Australia’s next generation of comedy talent.

Move over Pixar – it's our turn to animate

If it’s not Disney or Pixar, it’s not animation, right? Wrong. QUT sets us right with a new interactive exhibition.

Art is worth less in the age of Spotify – and not just financially

When the consumer can delete at the push of a button royalties are drastically reduced and artistic worth is liquified.