Television
Screen Australia Production Funding: blinded by bees, taxi driver runs over Nicole Kidman's children
Six features, $5.4m out the door, as Screen Australia uses some key Australian names on a production slate. Given that…
100 Bloody Acres: wins Best Motion Picture at Sitges
The Cairnes Brothers’ comedy /horror film, 100 Bloody Acres has won the Best Motion Picture Award in the Midnight X-Treme…
Autopsy on a Dream: the Opera House exposé that rose from the grave
John Weiley's Autopsy on a Dream was physically chopped to pieces in 1968. How could this forensic indictment of the…
Australian filmmaker wins top gay prize
Melbourne-based filmmaker Tim Marshall has won the 2013 Iris Award for his short film ‘Gorilla’.
Gloria
Chilean director's Sebastián Lelio's film about middle-aged loneliness finds joy with its stellar central performance
AIMC 2013: the numbers tell the story
You have to hand it to AIMC and Jupiters. They aim to impress with the Australian Box Office Awards luncheon…
AIMC 2013: Understanding the current issues of digital delivery at a cinema site level
Six heavies talk DCP, KDM and the possible approach of satellite delivery, while skirting the potential problems of leaving children…
Iris Award: Australian filmmaker wins top gay prize
A short film about a newly-in-love couple who are forced to face the unknown in their lives when a mysterious…
AIMC 2013: touching the hem of the great, or almost great
The nation's exhibitors do not give awards to shoot unknown talent to instant fame. They like their heroes to tuck…
Beyond the Great Wall: Pathways to Australia-China co-production
Mario Andreacchio of AMPCO argues that many of the barriers to successful co-production with China are at the Australian end…