Television
Ask the Mentor: How do I stay motivated after rejection?
Media Mentors' Esther Coleman-Hawkins answers your career questions with brisk no-nonsense advice for screen industry professionals.
What We're Watching: May
From psychedelic cartoons to punk histories, there's something for everyone in the office's roundup of the best of May viewing.
Vale Arthur Dignam
The Australian stage and screen actor, whose work included roles in The Devil’s Playground and The Dismissal, has died of…
China evolves a new screen market, traffic is officially stunning, Avatar won't go away
Bittorrent traffic is much higher than Facebook around most of the world – just one of our tasty list of…
St Kilda Film Festival goes national, booted into future by virus
Going online, the St Kilda shorts platform enables the festival movement to experiment with robust digital services which could change…
Where there’s smoke: seeing sex in 'Portrait of a Lady on Fire'
LGBTQ films tend to provoke debates about authenticity, especially when it comes to sex.
MIFF announces online version for August in an excited flurry of change
The Melbourne International Film Festival, known for its commanding sprawl over 17 days, has gone boutique, digital and national in…
Film: 'Hearts and Bones' is warm and human
A richly social film that doesn't lose sight of the darkness beneath a friendship.
Drop in jobs in arts and recreation sector a double whammy
A quarter of all arts and recreation jobs are now gone. Only eatery and hotel staff are worse off. And…
How bad are the ABC cuts? THIS bad.
While the government's budget has tripled since 1985, the ABC budget has been cut by a third. According to a…