News Feature by: Tina Kaufman
Friday 19 March, 2010
This year's Pay Television conference went far beyond the catchy rhetoric to some important ideas and glimpses of the real future. Tina Kaufman has been hammering the keyboard from her meticulous notes.

Friday 19 March, 2010
Mike Fries runs Liberty Global, the second biggest cable company in the world, and a major broadband player to boot. Who better to discuss the future of subscription television? This transcript starts slowly, with some comic interludes about the technology, but builds to some riveting paragraphs.

News Feature by: Alex Prior
Friday 19 March, 2010
Robin Gardner's and Devesh Chetty's RGM Media is now listed on the Australian Securities Exchange. An extraordinary general meeting of listed shell company Biosignal today approved the reverse listing. Screen Hub spoke to Robin Gardner about their plans.

Friday 19 March, 2010
Madman Films are pleased to offer Screen Hub subscribers the chance to in one of 10 double passes to 'Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky', the closing night film at the Cannes Film Festival in 2009.

News Feature by: Anne Richey
Friday 19 March, 2010
The production of Lancaster's Accidents Happen surely relied on endurance and fanatical determination, but the project itself was created by a series of happy accidents in public places.

News Feature by: David Tiley
Friday 19 March, 2010
When location caterer Kerry Feltzer revealed that chocolate bread and butter pudding is a crew favourite, we had to admit that a) we didn''t know what it was and b) we wanted to eat it. Who better to cater to our base desires than Julie Marlow, embedded at SPAA with a lifetime of useful skills?

News Feature by: David Tiley
Friday 19 March, 2010
Ovation, Foxtel's only arts channel, loses its slot at the end of March. While subscribers will be told of the wondrous new SBS Arts channel, we track the cunning machinations of Gerry Travers, owner of the dumped channel.

Friday 19 March, 2010
'Cougar Town' keeps falling. Maybe David Leckie was right.

Thursday 18 March, 2010
In a rush of Sydney busts, AFACT has assisted NSW police to incarcerate two more routine sellers of pirate videos. This is commerce, and it is dealing in stolen property.

Thursday 18 March, 2010
Seven beats Nine by a whisker.

Thursday 18 March, 2010
Too busy to enter? Think your work is too humdrum? Maybe you are better than you think. Maybe no-one else will enter. Maybe your genius will finally be recognised. We can tell you from experience that actually scoring an AWGIE is a good, good feeling.

News Feature by: David Tiley
Thursday 18 March, 2010
In these spin-driven days, simple plays. The Liberal Film policy is short, sharp and bullet-pointed.

News Feature by: Alex Prior
Wednesday 17 March, 2010
Talent agency RGM has been looking to list on the Australian Security Exchange for six months, and was hoping to get final approval on Friday. The deal now looks like it has run afoul of a patent dispute over anti biofilm (not biopic) seaweed compound.

News Feature by: David Tiley
Wednesday 17 March, 2010
Australian archival film people have long assumed the earliest extant local footage covered the Melbourne Cup in 1996. In 2005, they were thrilled to discover they were wrong.

News Feature by: David Tiley
Wednesday 17 March, 2010
The talking submarines have gone on to series two, which is busy selling even to cultures with no word for submarine.

News Feature by: David Tiley
Wednesday 17 March, 2010
While the Australian media put Hoyts into the "for sale to the highest bidder" category, the company has bought the Berkeley Cinema Group in New Zealand.

News Feature by: David Tiley
Tuesday 16 March, 2010
Up on the main board, Alice in Wonderland is slipping fast, although the numbers are still brainwrenching.

Tuesday 16 March, 2010
When the Whyalla paper claimed a local is going to make a feature film in four days, and that director Dave Wade is soliciting donations through JD's Cafe, we just had to ring him up...

Monday 15 March, 2010
Stuck in the old rhetorical trope - "telling our own stories" - Australian filmmakers could contemplate just why we are involved in this crazed enterprise and come up with another mantra - "make our own myths". Karen Pearlman, Head of Screen Studies at AFTRS, expands her case to reimagine our cinema.

News Feature by: David Tiley
Monday 15 March, 2010
With the second edition of Lumina out on the news stands, AFTRS is now firmly on the Australian specialist screen journal landscape. But it has a sting in its tail, to make producers think about ego, optimism, and the power of sheer persistence.

Monday 15 March, 2010
Flying Nun is "synonomous with Kiwi Indie music", as the site says. It produced a bunch of clips which can inspire retro-conscious contemporaries, and reduce the oldsters to giggling nostalgia.