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The wedding of Scott and Charlene
Opinions & Analysis

Neighbours and the Australian screen industry

The under-threat show has given a start to many writers, directors, producers, actors and crew over 37 years.

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High Ground, Nitram take top gongs at the FCCA awards

It's not often you see a draw in film awards, but the Film Critic's Circle of Australia reached a split…

A still from Shaun Micallef’s Mad As Hell (image - ABC)
Features

Australian comedy and streaming? It's Mad as Hell

Shaun Micallef’s show is the best Australian comedy of the last decade. For the best of the rest, look to…

A man, Destin Daniel-Cretton, sits in a dark room and looks directly into the camera
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Shang-Chi director offers a masterclass at UNTAPPED 2022

UNTAPPED has announced a new program for undiscovered Australian screenwriters and directors.

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Miss Fisher's producers adopt new roles at Every Cloud

Deb Cox and Fiona Eagger are stepping away from management and into advisory roles at the Australian production company.

Sinister but impeccably dressed villains in House of Gucci
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Box office - in slow times, we find an amaaazing fact

Sometimes the box office numbers are just plain weird. Here is a strange factoid about Australian numbers compared to China.

still from the film Wildhood, which opens the 2022 mardi Gras Film Festival.
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Mardi Gras Film Festival 2022 – a wild, queer frontier

The 2022 selection of LGBTIQ+ films features more than 100 films from 37 different countries.

Australian film buffs were thirsty to see international films from Europe and Asia. Image: supplied by the author.
Features

MIFF: how the Melbourne International Film Festival began 70 years ago

MIFF will commemorate its 70th anniversary in August 2022, making it one of the world’s oldest film festivals.

Press shot of Deborra-Lee Furnace, who was recognised in the Australia Day Honours for distinguished service to children as an adoption advocate and not-for-profit organisations and as an ambassador to the arts.
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Deborra-Lee Furness AO among the Australia Day Honours recipients

The actor and producer received the Order of Australia for her work as an adoption advocate and service to the…

Nicole Kidman, in a still from the film Being the Ricardos.
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Kidman, Winslet and Cumberbatch win big at the AACTA Awards

Nicole Kidman, Kate Winslet and Benedict Cumberbatch are among the winners of this year's AACTA International Awards.

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