Australia

Box Office: Cab film still doing well on 23 August 2015.
The Last Cab to Darwin is beginning to look like a money truck on the road north.

Holding the Man: from page to stage to screen
The ‘monumentally loved’ memoir by Timothy Conigrave is now a feature film: we track its convoluted journey to Australian cinemas.

How to visualise yourself into success
Research on sportspeople shows the power of this technique. It can be applied just as effectively to building an arts…

Seven keys to a documentary renaissance
Battered and compulsively evolving, independent documentaries are challenged to justify themselves at MIFF. Of course, they succeed.

An all-star cast for the first SUFF masterclasses
The University of Sydney’s contemporary art school, Sydney College of the Arts (SCA), has announced a weekend film masterclass program…

Southpaw
A knockout performance from Jake Gyllenhaal helps this standard boxing movie try to punch past its formula.

Seven: no grief in full year results
Seven West Media's full year results contain a spectacular result which is not what it seems to the untutored eye.

Seven: buys a heap of football with Foxtel and Telstra
The latest six year deal for the Australian Rules rights is the highest in our history, and lays out the…

TIFF 2015: the Australians come in two by two
The Australian presence at the Toronto International Film Festival has built nicely, with two new announcements.

Intro to Directing, Production Office 101, Summer School 20% Discount & More @ AFTRS Open
Last chance for August courses: SHORT FILM BOOT CAMP and PRODUCTION OFFICE 101, Linda Aronson’s SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT, Elissa Down’s INTRO…