Television

Sydney Film Festival plots a Winter's Sleep in Timbuktu
Behind the SFF cluster of five extra films from the Cannes Film Festival was a set of deals made with…

Something Must Break
As tender as the film may be in its consideration of the transgressive, it is also far from subtle.

Calvary
Calvary is a musing and moving meditation on faith, served up with dark comedy and deft commentary.
Alice & The Giant Emptiness: wins in Hollywood
Alice & The Giant Emptiness has received Silver at the recent Golden Trailer Awards in Hollywood.

National Film Festival: starting one from scratch
Cerise Howard explains how and why she is developing the Czech and Slovak Film Festival of Australia as a labour…
NZ: Queen's Birthday honours
The New Zealand Film Commission wishes to congratulate Dame Patsy Reddy, Catherine Fitzgerald and Frank Stark.

Brisbane International Film Festival: traded to local government
After decades in the state agency, BIFF is being moved to Brisbane Marketing, controlled by the city council.

ADG: one week to cook up attachment application
The Australian Directors' Guild is offering an attachment for an emerging director on Neil Armfield's Holding the Man.

Not just dancing better at parties
A story about dance's transformative power is particularly potent read against new statistics that show how few Australians dance.

20,000 Days on Earth
The feature turns the course of an ordinary day for Nick Cave into something extraordinary in its reflection and contemplation.