Rochelle Siemienowicz
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Screen News in Brief: Brisbane Film Festival goes back to the cinemas
BIFF unveils highlights, MIFF gets ready to go, Screen Australia enterprise recipients and new global initiative for female and non…
Dustin Clare: from Spartacus to CEO of new streaming service Shelter
The well-known actor and filmmaker has long been passionate about design and architecture. Now he's launching a content platform devoted…
What's Up With DocPlay? An interview with Paul Wiegard
The dedicated documentary streaming service launched quietly in 2016. The Madman CEO says it's now going strong and playing a…
'Non-Indigenous creatives are stealing the marketplace' - Penny Smallacombe
Screen Australia's Head of Indigenous says more and more of her time is taken up reading scripts by white people…
Screen News in Brief: MIFF fires up, impact producer fund, NITV in footy culture doc
Our biggest cinephile event has us in a tizz, but there's lots of other news and views in this fortnight's…
Anna Kaplan: You have to live and breathe your message
Greening Australia's screen industry is the goal for our best-known Impact Producer, the most recent recipient of the Natalie Miller…
Moving incredibly fast, it's Family Rules for Karla Hart
An interview with the Perth-based creator, producer and director of NITV's gorgeous documentary series 'Family Rules', now in its third…
The most anticipated Australian films of 2020
From Relic to Rams, Slim and I and Babyteeth, our updated list for COVID-19 has films to look out for…
Ripping the fabric of monotony: Two Video Projects Defy Lockdown
A cemetery's ghosts are projected on a bridge in Donna McRae's latest work, while giant puppet 'Lanimals' take back the…
Jacob Hickey on making factual TV with purpose
Blackfella's head of factual talks about keeping a format fresh and avoiding tackiness in the third season of SBS's 'Filthy…