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Box Office 24 April 2017 - Berlin Syndrome, Dance Academy and some missing audiences
Carnage in the cinemas and not just on the screen. Hopes have been dashed and dreams are bleeding out in…

Intro to VR, International Market Strategy, TV Writing + More
It’s your last chance for this weekend’s INTRO TO VR in Sydney, WRITING FOR TV (10 weeks, online) starting next…

Mind and heart, eyes and ears - documentary cinematographer Kirsten Johnson remembers
In her film Cameraperson, Kirsten Johnson confronts the sequences that challenge her understanding of her craft, her morality and the…

Hitting the road to get regional support right
Create NSW is hitting the road, pulling up a chair and sharing a cuppa with artists and arts workers, to…

Richard Moore - a personal view on the state of film festivals in Brisbane
Richard Moore, former Head of Screen Culture at Screen Queensland, explores the collapse of a broad-based international film festival in…

See-Saw haunted by monkey from the sixteenth century
The latest and maybe the best reinvention of the old Chinese Monkey legend from The Journey to the West comes…

What's On - local indies and comedies about making films.
Look carefully and you will find some powerful Australian indy films staking out a strictly limited release. And others that…

Ratings week of April 16 2017 - the whole batch
SBS and the ABC confront each other to control the non-cookery mid to late evening. Its serious doc v prime…

Box Office 17 April 2017 - Easter weekend
The exhibition business chock full of puzzles. Like, why is this film not doing well in the box office? Image:…

Arts professions excluded from skilled visa list
Arts organisations will face limitations on the use of international talent under changes to visa laws.