One of the masters of French cinema is making a whirlwind visit to Australia, and anyone with the opportunity of seeing him introduce one of his films, listening to him talk, or attending a workshop or masterclass should leap at the chance.
Producer Sue Maslin proposed “a women’s story led recovery of the Australian film industry” as a possibility at last nights Women In Film & Television Annual General Meeting and panel discussion.
The final phase of Aurora 2008, the FTO’s script development workshop, is underway this week in Sydney with Australian and international advisors working closely with the selected creative teams to prepare projects for financing.
Green light your project. Metro Screen invests in productions by providing subsidised access to our equipment and facilities through Jump Start and Network Production Grants.
Speaking at the SPAA Conference in Queensland, Oscar winner Eva Orner was asked whether she would consider coming back to work in Australia following her success with Taxi to the Dark Side. With the offset now available and the potential to raise budgets through philanthropic means via the Documentary Australia Foundation, she is certainly very tempted.
Long serving industry players and bright young things stepped up to receive their gongs in the grand ballroom of the Sheraton before settling back to enjoy HG Nelson’s rapid fire tirade on both the state of Film in Australia and Australia, the Film.
Caught in an impasse over higher wages, production of Indian soaps have ground to a halt, thus pleasing shopping mall owners, gym instructors and mattress suppliers.
The VP of Sales and Marketing at ANT believes that TV content needs to be packaged to suit their different audiences, and that this is the only way for them to survive.
The UK version of Amazon.com has stopped selling a book by a former Scientology insider - citing "legal reason". Never known a scientologist to sue anyone. Never used irony as a rhetorical technique.
