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New inventions in branding. Large format cameras. Editing Star Wars. Festival films. Chinese crackdown on indy visions. All juicy stories…

Film: Go! gives kids the racing bug
The gentle art of family films is deployed by Steve Worland who wrote Paper Planes and director Owen Trevor who…

What's new in mainstream TV drama for 2020?
Is it still possible to make breakthrough television in Australia? The 2020 new Australian shows on mainstream media can be…

Our updated 2020 calendar of film fests around the world
With coronavirus decimating the festival circuit, here's our updated guide to online fiction film festivals happening near, far, or entirely…

Neil Gaiman to appear in Australia
The Melbourne Writers Festival has announced that fiction writer Neil Gaiman will make a one-night only appearance in February.

Is that it? Oscars Nominations 2020
Margot Robbie is the only Australian hope in the Oscars, in yet another year where issues of diversity seem ignored…

Palaces of Dreams overwhelmed by reality
Cinemas are vital parts of community life in regional areas with their own responses to the fires.

Vale Tom Long
Respected as a fine actor and a kind, loving and modest man, Long died aged 51 after battling with encephalitis…

Box Office: Star Wars fades, 1917 blasts through while Cats lives in a dumpster
For cineastes this is a summer of art about artists. The rest of us are taking a quick run through…

Tomorrow's on fire: an artist responds to bushfires
Like many artists, animator and director Darcy Prendergast wanted to use his art to respond to the inaction around human-induced…