Television

Highly Strung
Scott Hicks' latest music-focused feature charts the passion and rigour of classical music, but overflows with competing elements.

St Kilda Film Fest makes happy on 2016 opening night
St Kilda's annual tribute to short films opened with splashy panache, went very dark and blasted out into a street…

SPA Ones to Watch 2016
Twenty emerging producers from across Australia have been selected to participate in Screen Producers Australia’s Ones To Watch mentoring program…

The Fits
Shaped by mood and partially told through dance and movement, The Fits is a precise work of intimate, internalised drama.

Storytelling, Directing, Producing, Docos, Lighting & More!
The end of financial year approaches, invest in new skills with AFTRS Open shortcourses: The Assistant Director (this weekend), MarketingVideoScriptwriting,…

ACS honours John Seale, cinematographer on Fury Road
The cinematographers run a key award which demonstrates the range of work which keeps people alive, in the year that…

Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures
As its moniker exclaims, this lively documentary is at its best when it's forcing viewers to explore its subject's artwork.

Green Room
Cultivating an unsettling atmosphere that never ceases, Green Room proves meatier than its horror-thriller formula might suggest.

Five ways to improve your acting
Learning to ignore external stimuli, extending your vocal range, and how to pull a script apart are all skills aspiring…

MIFF goes for sparkler-startler to open 2016 festival
Time may never be the same for A-list Melburnians after the premiere of the Death and Life of Otto Bloom.