Writing and Publishing
Shorts that lift hearts
Emotional warmth and uplifting stories set Heart of Gold apart from the grit and grunge of many contemporary film festivals.
Scripted Ink - Writers Guild bursts out in the best of times
Scripted Ink is both a funding source and a game changer, created between the Australian Writers' Guild and NCIS showrunner…
ScreenHub Whats On - Korean films, a sleeping girl and a hillside watertank
Lots of ace films pumped out by Palace, QAGOMA and ACMI. Girl, Asleep gets its release. Down Under is still…
Reading, ‘riting and swiping: the creative cost
Digital media now dictates a child's initial experience of literature, art and - most worryingly - often creative discovery.
AFTRS - back to the future, empowered by an origin story
To find the heartsong of AFTRS, CEO Neil Peplow sets high standards for outreach and diversity.
AFTRS - taking a spanner to the industry courses
Believe it or not, the screen sector is short of the right young staff. AFTRS rethinks its crucial industry courses,…
Landmark study finds diversity lagging on Australian TV
In 1999 there were only two Indigenous actors on Australian TV; that figure has thankfully increased, but diversity lags in…
What's On - AIDC, awards, screenings weird and wonderful
AIDC feed, SPA events, QAGOMA, ACMI, MCA in capital classics, and a pile of awards.
Copyright attack 'an unusually destructive force'
'Massive, unjustified, poorly researched and based on a remote and disconnected economic ideology of unusually destructive force.' That's what the…
13th Accelerator Wraps for MIFF
MIFF Accelerator, the film director professional development program held during the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF), has concluded its13th edition…