Monday 5 January, 2009 Virginia Trioli gets to stay, but Joe O’Brien will replace Barrie Cassidy as co-host ABC News Breakfast on ABC2 in 2009 – possibly one of the fastest turn-arounds in the history of television, with the program debuting on November 3, 2009.
Monday 5 January, 2009 Shooting Star Picture Company subsidiary CinemaLive has confirmed a deal with UK exhibitor VUE Cinemas to take their live coverage of The Wiggles content on to 40 screens. CinemaLive is a wholly-owned venture by Peter Skillman and Janelle Mason (Shooting Star Picture Company) that is targeting independent exhibitors with an offer to provide them with live event content.
Monday 5 January, 2009 Both Anthony Lucas’ My Rabbit Hoppy and Dennis Tupicoff’s Chainsaw have been selected for the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, along with René Hernandez’ The Ground Beneath and Sean Kruck’s Summer Breaks.
Friday 19 December, 2008 The Australian International Documentary Conference is putting out the first detailed announcement for the 2009 program. Now filmmakers rushing towards the earlybird deadlines (Dec 22nd), know why they have been budgeting to go.
Friday 19 December, 2008 We are sure she is used to these puns. Caterina De Nave is taking over the position effectively vacant since Sue Masters left - Executive Producer, Drama and Comedy.
Friday 19 December, 2008 NSW FTO has announced a total of $890,000 in funding to support six projects, five of which are for television, while the overpaid, overfunded and over here mob at Film Vic chuck $1.3 million of investment at filmmakers. The FTO claims that their money will generate $13 million in economic activity, while the Film Vic investment can only leverage a measly $12 million.
Friday 19 December, 2008 From out of the fog of hope and fear, the industry watches the face of Screen Australia gradually condensing on the windscreen of the truck called life. 'Hands off the wiper button!' screamed Jack...
News Feature by: David Tiley Wednesday 17 December, 2008 The AWG is not so thrilled about the terms of trade proposals from Screen Australia, just as it starts to act on the children's television sore point.
News Feature by: Alex Prior Wednesday 17 December, 2008 Screen Producers Association of Australia executive director Geoff Brown says that he expects this week’s submissions to Screen Australia on the draft terms of trade to be “just the beginning of a dialogue”. “We’re not prepared to accept these artificial timelines,” he said.
Wednesday 17 December, 2008 Just to prove that a) these things are terrific and b) twisting the conventions of children's animation is very, very good fun.
News Feature by: Antony I. Ginnane Wednesday 17 December, 2008 What really happened to Australian releases here and overseas during 2008? Pay attention, because Antony I. Ginnane has all the joy and horror in one fabulous list.
Tuesday 16 December, 2008 A wondrous collection of near miss videos, including some about people whose continued survival does nothing for the combined intelligence of the human race.
News Feature by: Natasha Phillips Monday 15 December, 2008 The SA industry representative group ran a forum which looked at the new proposals for both the Film and Screen Centre, and $4m to support local features. Unsurprisingly, local filmmakers are very happy with the vista opening before their entrepeneurial eyes.
Friday 12 December, 2008 In 2009, the DOCO NZ Conference is a one day event as part of the DOCNZ Summit, to be held on Sunday 22 Feb, two days after AIDC.
News Feature by: Antony I. Ginnane Friday 12 December, 2008 Antony I. Ginnane has been diarising his experience as chair of SPAA, to record his very own first one hundred days.
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