Television
AIDC 2013: the true resurgence of the independent documentary
Documentary subsumed by brilliantly crafted formulaic factual programs? The Doc Week and F4 programs around the AIDC tell us the…
AIDC 2013: Pennebaker and Hegedus, the real deal on their own true-life story
Beyond the hype, the Pennebaker and Hegedus team talked about their personal stories, the nature of their marriage, and the…
$20,000 grant fuels Texas Hoedown for Australian creatives
The Screen Producers’ Association of Australia is partnering with music stalwarts Big Day Out and Sounds Australia to offer the…
Blinder
This new football movie features plodding plotting, clichéd dialogue, lacklustre cinematography and a plot that asks us to cheer for…
Lost: found to be winner
XU Zheng's Chinese comedy Lost in Thailand will collect the Top-Grossing Asian Film Award at this year's Asian Film Awards.
AIDC 2013 Docweek: Sparkly silver bags, social entrepeneurs and CNEX 2.0
DocWeek’s first instalment of the new Summer School Sessions promised to cover a lot of ground. Social Entrepreneurship, the Power…
AIDC 2013: from out of the wreckage, a Future Rights Model
If you can control your film’s distribution, you can control its revenues. Distrify is a distribution platform aiming to let…
AIDC 2013: Walk Off the Land After the Harvest
A discussion of ethics in documentary making is a bi-annual tradition at the Australian International Documentary Conference. ScreenHub’s Andrew Einspruch…
WA Elections: ALP dozes through the election
West Australians go to the polls tomorrow. So far the Liberals have committed an additional $2 million over four years…
Screen Australia: development funding March 2013
Screen Australia has announced over $276,000 in funding to support the development of 10 feature film projects. Seven new projects…