Television
Wendall Thomas: talking scripts
UCLA Screenwriting and Producing lecturer Wendall Thomas is returning to Melbourne with a new swag of script theory goodies.
SPA Awards: entries close in a week
Entries are now open for the prestigious Screen Producers Australia Awards.
Hotell
A mature and measured feature unafraid to handle its content and concept in a manner unusual to most.
Screen Australia: the axeman cometh, in detail
In a day of destruction and reinvention, Graeme Mason announced cuts and changes to Screen Australia.
Behren Schulz: after two years, Love is Now
The $2m privately financed production is currently shooting in the Hunter Valley.
Of Horses and Men
In vignettes set within a quaint countryside community, a plethora of parallels are drawn between horse and human.
Brief: first Toronto 2014 list includes key NZ film
No kudos for Oz, but Kiwi eyes light up.
Zak Hilditch: These Final Hours before release
The last 12 months has been a whirlwind for writer-director Zak Hilditch. MIFF premiere, Cannes, and now 160 AU screens.
SPA: psst... you wanna buy a pre-thought contract?
The paradise of standard industry contracts gets one faltering step closer as SPA offers them to the whole producing community.
Brief: Screen Australia's first feature development tranche for 2014-5
$535,000, 18 projects, 8 new and 10 repeats, set around the world and across the range of genres.