Australia

Brief: Iron Sky2 to crowd source script editing
Iron Sky expands budget, relies more on crowdfunding, sends script to startled devotees.

Ratings: Sunday, 28th September 2014
While eyeballs have generally wandered this weekend, the football codes encouraged some serious concentration.

Walkley Docs: long list soon to be culled
The longlist for the Walkley documentary awards for 2014 has been announced.

The Equalizer
A finessed vigilante turn from Denzel Washington can't save The Equalizer from all things broad, bland, grim and nasty.

Exhibition Software: begone foul software developer
Here's an odd sign of the times; the software system that runs independent exhibition here has been spat out of…

Screen Forever: key names for 2014
More or less pinned down by meetings, SPA always has a lolly bag of overseas delegates for the market strand.…

Beyond: MIPTV 2014
The Beyond Distributions slate at MIPCOM is always a snapshot of the changing factual market, even as it continues to…

Ratings: Thursday, 25 September 2014
Seven continues to writhe on the floor with a Footy boot shaped mark in the solar plexus.

Screen Australia: change and not-change in the documentary debate
The funding tactics have changed in the evolving documentary guidelines, but the internal logic remains remarkably stable.

Darker Than Midnight
Though fuelled by good intentions and genuine empathy, Darker Than Midnight offers a softened take on a difficult experience.