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Production Stuff-up: this one is a doozie
Guardian
Thursday 17 May, 2012 (U.S.A.)

It is uncool to accidentally lock an actor inside a location overnight. It is ore uncool if his mobile phone is in the trailer. But it is terminally uncool when that actor is Michael Caine.

Gulumbu Yunupingu: the passing of an Australian icon
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Screen Hub
Thursday 17 May, 2012 (Australia)

Working on Indigenous productions is a privilege for non-Indigenous filmmakers, and can be a powerful, illuminating experience. Patricia Edgar remembers the production of Yolgnu Boy, through which she met Gulumbu Yunupingu, who died last week.

John Duigan: Careless Love brings him back to Australia with private finance
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Screen Hub
Wednesday 16 May, 2012 (Australia)

John Duigan, the writer/director behind Flirting and The Year My Voice Broke continues studying the marginalised in society with his new film, Careless Love, the story of a university student and prostitute in Sydney.

Sapphires: Deborah Mailman off to Cannes
SMH
Wednesday 16 May, 2012 (Australia)

Points to the power of Indigenous films on the international stage.

CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival: program announced for Canadian fest in Toronto
Broadcaster Magazine
Wednesday 16 May, 2012 (Canada)

The program is out. If you can find it, get a gold star. If you are in it, send us a press release.

Brief: sand animation requres HOW MUCH work?
Screen Hub
Tuesday 15 May, 2012 (Australia)

The publicity for The Hunter, a sand animation by writer/director Marieka Walsh and producer Donna Chang contains some mindboggling figures about the production.

ADG: A short history, as penned by Stephen Wallace, citizen of this parish
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Screen Hub
Monday 14 May, 2012 (Australia)

Stephen Wallace is a modest man, with a quiet role as historian of the Australian Directors` Guild. Here is the short account he penned for the 30th Anniversary celebrations. We hear he is doing more, and we are fascinated....

Screen Australia: sixteen development announcements
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Screen Australia
Monday 14 May, 2012 (Australia)

The slate has been expanded by ten, with six repeats, spending a total of almost $400,000.

Brief: Realise Your Dream - back and just as enticing
Screen Hub
Monday 14 May, 2012 (U.K.)

The British Council Realise Your Dream competition transports Australian creatives on a reverse journey back to the Old Dart, with $10,000 and appointments to see useful mentors. A decade of industry people have benefited.

ADG Awards: thirty years on, a celebration in style
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Screen Hub
Monday 14 May, 2012 (Australia)

If organising writers is like herding cats, managing directors is like getting bears to dance in unison. The Australian Directors` Guild honoured itself for thirty years of a pretty tough act which has shaped the industry and renewed its fighting spirit.

Film Industry: we need to be more like Nigeria
Ghanaweb
Friday 11 May, 2012 (Ghana)

This is a passionate argument for the cultural and economic benefits of a film industry. The odd thing is that this is someone from Ghana writing, and the benefits being referred to are Nigeria`s. A nice piece of cultural relativism for our jaded lobbyists.

Sydney Film Festival: Not Suitable For Children to open the fun
Daily Telegraph
Wednesday 9 May, 2012 (Australia)

Not Suitable For Children, a comedy starring Sydney actor Ryan Kwanten (True Blood) will open the Sydney Film Festival.

Mabo: premiere at Sydney Film Festival
SMH
Wednesday 9 May, 2012 (Australia)

On the twentieth anniversary of the historic Mabo decision, the feature film based on the life of Eddie Mabo will premiere at the Sydney Film Festival.

Sydney Film Festival: Liz Watts scores twice in official competition
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Screen Hub
Wednesday 9 May, 2012 (Australia)

Two Australian feature films have made it into official competition at this year`s Sydney Film Festival, Dead Europe directed by Tony Krawitz and Lore directed by Cate Shortland. Lore is a co-production between Porchlight Films (Liz Watts) and Rohfilm (Benny Drechsel), while Dead Europe is produced by Liz Watts, Emile Sherman and Iain Canning.

ACS: the awards WILL be televised, 2012 winners
Australian Cinematographers Society
Monday 7 May, 2012 (Australia)

The 2012 Australian Cinematraphers Society Awards were held on Saturday night, and you can see the winners and their reels here.

Marwencol: sounds like a must-see documentary
The Age
Monday 7 May, 2012 (U.S.A.)

Jeff Malmberg documents an alcholic down and out who was violently assaulted, completely lost his memory, and came back as an artist with a doll village.

Village Roadshow: cops international flack for dumping Joss Whedon to DVD
IndieWire
Friday 4 May, 2012 (Australia)

There`s some scathing and well-informed criticism of Village Roadshow over it`s decision to dump Joss Whedon`s Cabin In The Woods to DVD - when it would get its cinema release straight after The Avengers, which he also directed.

The Shadowcatchers: cinematographers create their own history and it glows
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Screen Hub
Friday 4 May, 2012 (Australia)

As the concentrated essence of production nerdery, we at Screen Hub believe we have the right to claim that this one collection of pictures defines the national significance of our collective screen vision. So there.

Universal Pictures: 100 year retrospective festival
LA Times
Friday 4 May, 2012 (U.S.A.)

“Universal Pictures: Celebrating 100 Years,” is a retrospective being run by the UCLA Film & Television Archive, spanning the silent era to the almost-present.

Film Development Seminar: hauling out the heavies for Sydney
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Screen Hub
Thursday 3 May, 2012 (Australia)

INSIDE OUT/OUTSIDE IN is an intensive three day workshop on the strategy, creativity and craft of developing compelling feature films. A lot of bureaucratic knitting has gone into making this the real deal, as Screen NSW, Screen Australia, Vivid Sydney, and the Sydney Film Festival bring in a pair of serious LA players.

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