Friday 12 March, 2010
Daniel Joseph Borgman, director of the first Danish-NZ co-production, has been accepted into the The Résidence du Festival, a development program with the Cannes Film Festival. 'The Weight of Elephants' tells the story of a teenage paperboy who witnesses a horrific murder.

News Feature by: David Tiley
Thursday 11 March, 2010
Maurice Newman gave a speech to senior staff on Wednesday which covered the ABC's role in a changing world, and slid sideways into climate denialism and the playbook of the sceptics.

News Feature by: David Tiley
Thursday 11 March, 2010
What is happening inside the Melbourne International Film Festival? Karl Quinn, Age journalist, has a swag of allegations, which have been tipped onto page five with a juicy headline.

Wednesday 10 March, 2010
Reviews, a workhorse of Variety, with enormous brand cut through, will no longer be written by full time staff. And we are not supposed to care.

News Feature by: Rachael Turk
Wednesday 10 March, 2010
The Australian Film Television and Radio School popped a question that makes the screen sector mumble and look at its collective feet. Why doesn’t Australia make Romantic Comedies? Rachael Turk watches a certain determination to not get personal...

Wednesday 10 March, 2010
What's the Problem with Nudity beat Hitler's Bodyguard, but not in the regions where viewers much preferred Big Bang in Tunguska about a large explosion in a useless piece of countryside.

Wednesday 10 March, 2010
Alice In Wonderland sucked $10,377,137 from Australian pockets, as our contribution to the largest opening weekend evah.

Wednesday 10 March, 2010
Wellington is about to erect a 28m by 3.5m sign on a hill - WELLYWOOD. Sadly, it is not a homage to the local boot industry, but an embarrassing genuflection to a terrible pun about cinema. We think they should have gone for THE SHIRE.

News Feature by: David Tiley
Wednesday 10 March, 2010
Move to Los Angeles, get the career choofing, spend too long in traffic, decide to make an indy feature - the story of Michael Bond, Cameron Daddo, László Baranyai and a carload of invisible ninja crew on the freeway is truly wonderful.

Wednesday 10 March, 2010
Apple debuted [deeboooted?] the iPad advertising at the Oscars. You think this thing won't roooool your world?

News Feature by: Tina Kaufman
Monday 8 March, 2010
Rani Mukherjee is one of the biggest stars in world cinema, but few people in Australia know she exists, and the media is seemingly uninterested in her arrival this week to open Bollywood and Beyond, the Indian Film Festival for 2010.

News Feature by: Rachael Turk
Monday 8 March, 2010
With films like Valentine's Day and It's Complicated charming the box office, and a soggy history of cheery love in the Australian cinema, the Australian Film Television and Radio School provided an emergency box of ideas in a week-long course on creating the Romantic Comedy.

News Feature by: David Tiley
Monday 8 March, 2010
Andrew Ogilvie and Trevor Graham are constructing the industry equivalent of a marriage, and it is a symbolic moment for the wider sector.

Monday 8 March, 2010
After the Mary and Max and Samson & Delilah moments of gross injustice, the focus on the golden man is subdued for us this year. So far, it hasn't got any better..

Monday 8 March, 2010
TVNZ has now released a little more detail around the launch of its new Sky-platform channel Heartless, clarifying concerned speculation on some issues raised on Friday.