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St Kilda Film Fest makes happy on 2016 opening night
St Kilda's annual tribute to short films opened with splashy panache, went very dark and blasted out into a street…

Inside the Canada-Australia Interactive Digital Media Incentive
Interactive digital media is a shape-shifter which has now even found a way to conjure co-pros to feed its endless…

SPA Ones to Watch 2016
Twenty emerging producers from across Australia have been selected to participate in Screen Producers Australia’s Ones To Watch mentoring program…

The Fits
Shaped by mood and partially told through dance and movement, The Fits is a precise work of intimate, internalised drama.

Canada's magic potion for culture
Canada provides much better support to their arts and screen sectors than Australia. What are we doing wrong?

ABC Fact Check Unit Strangled
The ABC went medieval today and sent the stranglers in to stifle the Fact Check Unit just when politicians are…

Storytelling, Directing, Producing, Docos, Lighting & More!
The end of financial year approaches, invest in new skills with AFTRS Open shortcourses: The Assistant Director (this weekend), MarketingVideoScriptwriting,…

ACS honours John Seale, cinematographer on Fury Road
The cinematographers run a key award which demonstrates the range of work which keeps people alive, in the year that…

Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures
As its moniker exclaims, this lively documentary is at its best when it's forcing viewers to explore its subject's artwork.

Green Room
Cultivating an unsettling atmosphere that never ceases, Green Room proves meatier than its horror-thriller formula might suggest.