Australia

Take your kids to work: family-friendly artists’ residencies
Many artists find a baby a hindrance to creative life but child-friendly residency programs help parents continue their creative careers.

Box Office 5 September - fear zombies, delight kids, mock failing tentpoles
In a dead time for local films (see them at the AFI) Girl Asleep is about to hit the screens,…

Open Day + Grow Your Screen Business, Screenwriting & More
Open Day this Saturday! A chance to find out about 2017 courses: the BA Screen, Diplomas, Graduate Certificates and new…

Sully
Stirring recreations and a restrained Tom Hanks prove the highlights of Clint Eastwood's take on the miracle on the Hudson.

Uncertainty as super-company Deluxe exits post business.
Deluxe Australia, the biggest post production in the industry, has abandoned its high end services operation. What are the implications?

National Ratings week beginning Sunday 4 September 2016 - the full batch
Nine solidly ahead propelled by its marriage show and The Block.

Venice Film Festival - Hacksaw Ridge has faith in blood and guts
Hacksaw Ridge lumbers into public gaze, with a face which could curdle AACTA milk while it walks off with the…

Shorts that lift hearts
Emotional warmth and uplifting stories set Heart of Gold apart from the grit and grunge of many contemporary film festivals.

Scripted Ink - Writers Guild bursts out in the best of times
Scripted Ink is both a funding source and a game changer, created between the Australian Writers' Guild and NCIS showrunner…

Blood Father
This hard-boiled boilerplate effort is blunt, brutal, hardly original and yet mostly efficient as well.