Australia

Lincoln
Daniel Day-Lewis gives the definitive performance of Abraham Lincoln, the iconic US President whose second-term struggle to ban slavery forever…
AACTA 2013: as seen on television
The AACTA Awards are very much a work in progress, and the stars gave their all, but most of the…
SXSW: Eva Orner's The Network only Oz film to make the program
Eva Orner's documentary feature The Network, the story of the Australian-owned TOLO TV, the only independent television station in Afghanistan,…
AIDC 2013: good news story about to collide with reality
Creating a great documentary conference is always a tough gig, and the AIDC set itself some insane organisational challenges through…
eOne: acquires 1984 rights for Australia
eOne, which owns distributor Hopscotch in Australia, has signed a first look deal with Los Angeles-based producer 1984. The deal…
Indomina: Griff the Invisible distributor set to vanish
Indomina, the US company with North American rights to Australian films Holy Motors, Wasted On The Young and Griff the…
Tropfest: abandoned, retrieved, let loose on the mainstream
Tropfest will be broadcast by SBS on the night of the awards. At last, all Australians can tune into the…
AACTA 2013: our scribe on the spot awash with glam and ironies
Though The Sapphires swept all, our Tina Kaufman kept her head and contemplated some other contenders in a year of…

SPAA completes new leadership team
SPAA has raided Screen Australia's brains trust to beef up its leadership team.
Open Channel Filmmaker Initiatives bring members face to face with the creators of MythBusters, Anat
As Victoria’s home for emerging and early career screen practitioners for over 40 years, Open Channel filmmaker initiatives are focused…