News Feature by: David Tiley
Thursday 23 May, 2013
The documentary makers have not quietly accepted the loss of several categories in the AACTA awards for 2013. Instead, the Sydney activists have generated a protest letter under the OzDocs banner, and called for consultation.

News Feature by: Lisa French
Thursday 23 May, 2013
Lisa French uses a potted personal history of the St Kilda Film Festival to explore the role of short film beyond career development. A message which bears repeating as often as possible.

News Feature by: Tara Judah
Thursday 23 May, 2013
What is it actually like to attend the Cannes Film Festival as a passionate Australian critic low on the French totem pole? Tara Judah sloshes, dodges, trudges and waits her way towards the magic of cinema, armed with the determination she brings to defending her beloved Astor Cinema.

Thursday 23 May, 2013
Four projects, $974,000, said to trigger $25 million investment and 1,015 jobs for the State. See Pictures, Jungleboys, Matchbox and Cordell Jigsaw take up the burden of stimulating the economy.

News Feature by: David Tiley
Thursday 23 May, 2013
Having reached the age of thirty, and extended from six to ten days in celebration, the St Kilda Film Festival was in serious need of a major sponsor until just a few weeks ago. Now on board the Air Asia dream machine, Paul Harris had a certain relief in his voice when he contemplated the evolution of the festival.

News Feature by: Alex Prior
Wednesday 22 May, 2013
The business of the Cannes Film Festival is well under way, with Kim Mordaunt’s low budget feature The Rocket to get a US and Canadian release through Kino Lorber. The company has the rights to theatrical, VOD and home media, and will release in 2014. Tine Klint of Danish-based international sales agent LevelK did the deal.

News Feature by: Julie Marlow
Wednesday 22 May, 2013
With just the right mix of pomp, perfidy, Prada and presales, Julie Marlow hunts the money stories through the madness of the Cannes multitudes. Broadcast involvement, for instance, is taking a dive at the shallow end of the pool, and spectators are waiting anxiously for a lifeguard.

News Feature by: Andrew Einspruch
Tuesday 21 May, 2013
Even emerging producers fresh from the real world have to understand they are a brand, according to the Cannes Film Market’s Producers Workshop. Screen Hub’s Andrew Einspruch stays idealistic as he contemplates the pitching nitty-gritty of B2B Marketing Tools and Strategies and the invention of the producerial self.

News Feature by: Andrew Einspruch
Tuesday 21 May, 2013
For the third year, the Cannes Film Market held its Producers Workshop, aimed at new and new-ish producers attending the market. One session in the series of workshops was What Kind of Producer Are You? Screen Hub’s Andrew Einspruch reports but keeps any reflections on his own identity to himself.

Wednesday 22 May, 2013
Reed Midem, which runs the MIP conferences, has plunged into the digital world with the purchase of LeWeb, a strand of conferences. The next, in London on June 5th and 6th, is enticing wandering Australians with a fifty percent discount, but only until May 23rd.

Tuesday 21 May, 2013
The Screen Producers` Association of Australia has signed a Memorandum of Understanding to co-operate with Canadian Media Production Association, its North American equivalent.

Monday 20 May, 2013
Climbing, climbing.. the figures for Gatsby defy the printed insults.

Monday 20 May, 2013
Penne Hackforth-Jones has died of lung cancer. She was pretty private, but her public world as a performer will linger in dozens of television programs and a solid bunch of secondary roles in some fine films. Read blog and you start to touch the spirit that endeared her to so many professional colleagues.

News Feature by: David Tiley
Monday 20 May, 2013
Will The Great Gatsby leave Cannes with a prize? No, unless there is some wrinkle we have not heard of. Will The Last Dance? Yes, it already has. Antony I. Ginnane, who knows full well that film producing is made of modest victories, can be quietly pleased.

Monday 20 May, 2013
The successful New Zealand Make My Movie initiative has returned, and reconfigured itself as Make My Horror Movie. It is almost as if the idea itself is sentient, pulling a film community towards the dark side. And the possibility of international sales.

News Feature by: Julie Marlow
Monday 20 May, 2013
What does a Cannes veteran actually think about as she makes her way through the melee of Cannes 2013? Money, goss, official discomfiture.. the Screen Australia saddling paddock, and some useful deals by antipodean players.

News Feature by: Alex Prior
Monday 20 May, 2013
With theatrical runs that last for decades in all Australian capital cities, and an audience which numbers in the millions each year, using experimental formats and multimedia, you`d really think that Bruce Brown would be a celebrated figure in Australian documentary. Bruce who?

News Feature by: Alex Prior
Monday 20 May, 2013
"We don`t consider film-making to be part of the Arts anymore. Film-making used to be for film-makers, now it`s just for anybody." The Museums Australia National Conference offers a challenging perspective on conventional screen industry professionalism

Friday 17 May, 2013
Knowing that emerging producers cluster around Vivid in Sydney and the St Kilda fest in Melbourne greedy for inspiration, SPAA snatches the opportunity to distract them with a very different form of entertainment. Workshops, which will cue them into bits of the new-look SPAAfringe.

Friday 17 May, 2013
In Rochester, Kodak has appointed Christian Richter to the new role of film lab and studio relationship manager. The big black K is not giving up on sprocket holes. Can justice be done in the dusty streets of the new frontier?