Screen Queensland CEO Maureen Barron, has today announced QUEENSLAND’S premiere film festival – the St.George Bank Brisbane International Film Festival (BIFF) - is set to unveil a new look with a new Spring timeslot, festival director, venues and refreshed programming and awards.
Following on from Metro Screen's The Greener Screen event we would like to say: When preparing your next project, we ask that you consider how you can work to make your production greener. This does not have to be an all consuming part but it is a factor that Metro Screen would like to see everyone acknowledge. We recommend using the fantastic resources developed at Film New Zealand: http://www.greeningthescreen.co.nz/about/purpose/
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.
In the short time since acclaimed composer Basil Hogios put the finishing touches on his music and sound post-production company FirstCut Studio, he has accrued some of the best facilities and finest talent this country has to offer.
Singer, pianist, lawyer and copyright maven for ACMI, Emma Page Campbell has bought a house with Robert Doyle, Lord Mayor of Melbourne. They plan to marry.
Lithuanians are experimenting with bicycle power for outdoor cinemas. Piker audiences can only manage the sound system. For the pictures, its still donkeys on a treadmill.
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?
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.
After 20 years, screenwriter Stuart Beattie (‘Pirates of the Caribbean’, ‘Australia’) has plonked himself in the director’s chair for the first time on ‘Tomorrow When the War Began’. He seems to be pretty comfortable.
Jason Stutter's Predicament opened Thursday, receiving less than glowing reviews and raising the old question of whether local films receive preferential treatment from critics.
Two reviews for some balance - but raising similar issues. [According to our stories on the project, it did have a fair amount of development, and a lot of support on the script.]
Icon Films are pleased to offer Screen Hub subscribers the chance to win one of 20 double passes to Michael Winterbottom's new film, 'The Killer Inside Me'.