Friday 3 September, 2010
Citing the agonies of a reduced budget, Film Victoria has excised the Catapult program, and is currently rejigging its digital media offerings.

News Feature by: David Tiley
Friday 3 September, 2010
Remember how Ovation got dumped off Foxtel, to be replaced by STVDIO, a partner to the World Movies Channel? September is Sinatra month on Ovation, and its owner Gerry Travers is singing through gritted teeth.

News Feature by: David Tiley
Friday 3 September, 2010
In the tough, ultra-precise, maniacally dedicated, breathtakingly capitalised market place of high end post production, FSM has wheeled out a new tool of its own devising, in which digital mangle becomes digital wrangle.

Friday 3 September, 2010
Across the last financial year, Film Victoria invested over $5m; this first announcement for the 2010-2011 year covers $1,389,871.

Friday 3 September, 2010
The X Factor' takes first place on a night when the audience was very scattered.

Thursday 2 September, 2010
Nine takes the night, even though they had nothing in the top 6 programs.

News Feature by: Anne Richey
Wednesday 1 September, 2010
The first series of 'Dance Academy' has screened and fans are eagerly awaiting the next installment. Screen Hub spoke to creators Samantha Strauss and Joanna Werner about how it’s progressing.

News Feature by: David Tiley
Wednesday 1 September, 2010
In Perth, at the end of October, a band of fascinated filmmakers will traverse the outer edges of perception in an intensive workshop exploring new screening possibilities beyond IMAX and 3D.

News Feature by: David Tiley
Wednesday 1 September, 2010
Not too many commissioning editors can claim to have saved six hundred thousand people from being infected by HIV/AIDS in a single year. Welcome to the tragic, heartening world of Dr Garth Japhet.

Tuesday 31 August, 2010
Clarke and Doyle are perfect on the state of the nation.

Tuesday 31 August, 2010
Here's an unexpected entrant: Melanie Coombs has provided the opening weekend results for Mary and Max in Germany. Meanwhile, the Australian offerings in the US are pottering like happy tourists in a Sunday market.

Monday 30 August, 2010
Well known actress and acting tutor at ScreenWise, Victoria Longley, has passed away. She was just 47.

Monday 30 August, 2010
Industry rumour reckons that Eye of the Storm, Fred Schepisi's waltz with the ghost of Patrick White, is pretty terrific. Will the trailer show what they mean?

News Feature by: Anne Richey
Monday 30 August, 2010
When was the last time a Q&A with a screenwriter was able to sell out the Melbourne Town Hall and the Sydney Opera House?

Monday 30 August, 2010
Craft awards are always hotly contested - and here is a bunch where hot contests will abound. Here are the directors subjected to the opinions of their ever-generous peers.

News Feature by: David Tiley
Monday 30 August, 2010
The AWG is road testing a new service which will support individual writers in their contract negotiations. A move which is likely to make the other participants in deals very interested indeed.

Monday 30 August, 2010
The story of Ettamogah Entertainment is both a salutary soapie, and a slow motion horror story. Battered staff have provided a quick update, and a link to a fascinating article from the US.

Friday 27 August, 2010
The INPUT international television conference brings the commissioning editors from public broadcasters together with filmmakers in a high octane moment designed to share and celebrate the best and most innovative television for the year. It spawns a small but perfectly formed piece which occurs in Australia in spring.