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Sydney Film Festival blasts warning siren - two minutes of play before entries close
The annual domestic festival round warms up, with the Sydney deadlines starting the parade. Redline day is next week.

Goalpost sets up first look deal with all3media international
Goalpost is an expert at taking advantage of slow evolution in the long game. Here's another important step.

What's On: key strand at AIDC + WIFT + SPA + teach your dog to drive the NZ way
The AIDC is getting very close, AWGIES entries open, Monte Miller next week, Vic WIFT in action and NZ steals…

Love Bites: Queer storytelling in its rawest form
A series of personal and transformative documentaries told by LGBTIQ filmmakers will screen on ABC iview this Sunday to coincide…

Tasmanian filmmakers hopeful after ALP promise
Fighting for power, the ALP commits to pumping up Screen Tasmania, and promises separate money to Wide Angle, as the…

Sometimes Film Critics Circle prefers dangerous pooch to big cat on Awards Night
Lion keeps on dominating the awards space, though the FCCA makes a bid for freedom on actors and music.

BAFTAS 2018 - Oscars firm around favourites
Both the Oscar favourites are now pretty non-mainstream, and neither has directors born in the US.

Box Office 19 Feb 2018 - is our great screen adventure going bust?
Sweet Country is our dream arthouse film. Did well at festivals, loved by critics. But its cinema performance cruelly reminds…

AFTRS TV SERIES FORMATS, DIRECTING ACTORS, VR & MORE
New on the schedule: TV Assistant Editor, with Applied Storytelling for Videomakers coming fast.

Secrets of production design revealed in new industry manual
The Australian Production Designers Guild has taken five years of research and rewriting to produce a free manual, partly for…