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Beyond the mainstream - the AACTA Awards with something fresh
Here are the AFI/AACTA categories which nurture young filmmakers, sustain extreme doco makers and honour the most popular films in…
AACTA TV Awards: what happened to commercial television?
The main battles pit Foxtel against the ABC and SBS with occasional doses of STAN.
Box Office 29 October 2018: Halloween and a Star is Born remakes still disdained
Very old remake/franchises pop up as spike in national audience collapses. And our audiences still don't like Halloween
Brief: Sydney event about balancing parenthood and entrepreneurship
Sooner or later creative parents emerge from the new baby haze to think about small business. Find out what happens…
What's On Your Screen: Backtrack to Book Week in a crowded calendar
The best dog and horse film comes from Australia. Watch out for Backtrack Boys, while Book Week will show you…
Quentin Kenihan - A Qulogy for my mate
Write and director Shane McNeil reflects on the death of his friend and colleague Quentin Kenihan who died on October…
Tenderness and the art of taming feral pups
Backtrack Boys tells the story of some wild boys and the dogs that tame them. We talk to documentary filmmaker…
Local film & TV makes up just 1.6% of Netflix’s Australian catalogue
Netflix’s local content level has fallen from 2-2.5% to 1.6% (82 Australian titles out of 4,959) since 2017.
Adelaide Film Festival - 2020 Too Far Away
The Adelaide Film Festival brought quality, sparkle and (hopefully) some inspiration for 2018. But it still won't happen next year.
Sharing secret producer business and staying realistic
Producers are 'in charge of the resources', in Andrena Finlay's neat but bland phrase. What does that really mean?