Mark Poole
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Screen Forever 2013: Merchant Ivory - do you mind if I borrow your phone?
Merchant Ivory may sound utterly respectable, but it was a prime exponent of the chancers' art of conjuring a film…
Screen Forever 2013: the future of television
Israeli format guru Avi Armoza had the floor to himself, and was able to provide a unique perspective on television…
Screen Forever 2013: format wars, and the real truth of transnational expansion
Screen Forever, the 2013 edition of the rebadged SPAA Conference, organised by SPA, or Screen Producers Australia, formerly SPAA, the…
Disability Media: launched (again, still with grit)
On Tuesday the 23rd October 2013, Disability Media was launched at RMIT in Melbourne. Or relaunched, to be precise. The…
MIFF 37South 2013: the budget squeeze, part 2
The budget/marketplace reality question is pretty messy. Here Mark Poole charts different currents of thought about risk, risk aversion, the…
37 Degrees South 013: pressure on to squeeze budgets
On Saturday afternoon at MIFF’s 37 Degrees South Film Market, no less than five panels took different approaches to consider…
Books at MIFF 2013: turning out for The Turning
Robert Connolly wil mastermind the information flow about The Turning very carefully. This stage is mostly about negotiating the rights…
37 Degrees South 013: now a familiar, stable structure
For the seventh year in a row, the Melbourne International Film Festival is hosting the film market 37 degrees South.…
SPAA: changing strategy as national roadshow commences
Screen Producers Association of Australia Executive Director, Matthew Deaner, and Matthew Hancock, Manager of Strategy and Insights addressed a crowded…
AIDC 2013: case studies in alternative finance
This session was one of the inspirational ones of AIDC 2013. Several filmmakers who are very used to traditional financing…