Friday 3 February, 2012
The word is out that Deluxe is finally moving its release print business offshore. It is an important symbolic moment.

News Feature by: Anne Richey
Friday 3 February, 2012
Celeste Geer was living in Strathewen when the Black Saturday bushfires decimated the town in 2009. Fortunately, she and her family survived and their house was left standing. Others were not so lucky. She recorded what has happened in the town since the disaster. Her documentary will be shown on the third anniversary.

News Feature by: Anne Richey
Friday 3 February, 2012
James Boldiston has been busy making a new version of Australia`s most popular indie cinema app for ICAA. Do you go to independent cinemas? Do you have an iPhone? Then this app could make you very appy.

News Feature by: Alex Prior
Friday 3 February, 2012
The Roland Joffe-directed film Singularity was shooting at Bundaberg Park in Queensland when its traffic and security contractor Mark Bromley of SAS decided he`d had enough of not being paid, stepped in front of the cameras, and refused to move until he had a cheque for $55,000.

Friday 3 February, 2012
February 19th is the date, fifteen is the number of hiccuping hopefuls with knotted stomachs for the next seventeen days. But, as usual, there is one wild card for you, the viewer, to influence history.

News Feature by: David Tiley
Friday 3 February, 2012
Joost den Hartog is about to deliver his sixth documentary conference, in Glenelg at the end of February. Each year, the conference mirrors developments inside Australia, and participates in the ongoing international discussion about the sector. This time, it could be different.

Friday 3 February, 2012
Farm-reared film director James Cameron is heading back to the land, just not his own. The Canadian-born creator of Terminator, Dark Angel and Avatar has created what Federated Farmers were quick to describe as “a titanic opportunity” with his purchase of two NZ farm properties.

News Feature by: David Tiley
Friday 3 February, 2012
A Few Best Men added a million during the week, and the screen average climbed from $7580 to $10,500. That, say the experts, is pretty good.

News Feature by: Tina Kaufman
Wednesday 1 February, 2012
Tina Kaufman covered the AACTA Awards from the auditorium, before watching it on her PVR. She remembers the trash and treasures of a new look ceremony.

News Feature by: Anne Richey
Wednesday 1 February, 2012
The shoot on Black Buster finished last Saturday. It was one of producer Andrew Arbuthnot’s biggest short film productions so far, with many costume changes, dance scenes, fight scenes and actors hooked up to fly across the pool room. It’s a multi-genre extravaganza.

Wednesday 1 February, 2012
Icon Films are pleased to offer Screen Hub subscribers the chance to win one of 10 double passes to Coriolanus starring Ralph Fiennes, Vanesse Redgrave and Gerard Butler.

News Feature by: David Tiley
Wednesday 1 February, 2012
The AFI-ACTA masterplan took another step forward in the new look ceremony in the Sydney Opera house. Whether it is going for glory or fell in a ditch is a matter of some contention.

Wednesday 1 February, 2012
Lots of style, not so many stiffs full of maggots - here is the trailer and the publicity for the 30`s we wish had really happened.

Wednesday 1 February, 2012
Before pioneering director Tim Burstall got respectable, he was a Bad Boy of the 1950`s, a journalist with the Antarctic Division by day, and a Communist and culture vulture by night. He kept a funny, pungent diary, which has now been published.

News Feature by: David Tiley
Wednesday 1 February, 2012
Simon Whipp, the controversial head of Equity, the actors` branch of the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance, has been replaced by long-serving policy and government expert, Sue McCreadie.

News Feature by: Dr Vincent O`Donnell
Monday 30 January, 2012
Dr O`Donnell puts a cultural stethoscope against the beating heart of yet another review, this time in the UK, by Lord Smith of Finsbury, into the rubble of the Conservative reforms.

News Feature by: Anne Richey
Monday 30 January, 2012
With the documentary The Tall Man set to screen on SBS on Sunday night and the feature Dead Europe in the middle of editing, director Tony Krawitz found time to talk about the projects which took him from Palm Island to Paris.

News Feature by: Alex Prior
Monday 30 January, 2012
The Independent Cinema Association of Australia has announced the three appointments to oversee the roll-out of the ICAA-Cinedigm virtual print fee scheme in Australia. The team is on a tight deadline, with the VPF promised to commence on April 14.

Monday 30 January, 2012
Ben Lewin`s The Surrogate has the Audience Award, Dramatic and the Special Jury Prize for Ensemble Acting - along with a $6m deal with Fox Searchlight.

Monday 30 January, 2012
Will the AACTAs prefigure the Oscars? The awards shorten the odds by betting on the favourite.

News Feature by: David Tiley
Monday 30 January, 2012
There have been some mean-spirited reviews that suggest that A Few Best Men is a dog, but it turns out to be doing better than the real dog film on its first weekend.