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Play It Safe
This indie Australian drama focuses on Jamie, a 26-year-old musician who is out of work and down on his luck.

Small players making it in global gaming market
Developers from tiny markets like Australia are not necessarily disadvantaged when making games go global - a marked contrast to…

Lexus Australia Short Film Festival Finalist list poses huge question
The Lexus Australia Short Film Fellowship is trundling towards the climactic announcement of the four successful filmmaker, due next month.…

Screen Australia: new Offset leader found inside organisation
The new head of the Producer Offset and Co-production Unit is Tim Phillips, who will dust off the legal parts…

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Zack Snyder's latest comic book effort may tease a superhero showdown, but remains more concerned with setting up future films.

What the arts can learn from games development
No art form connects with its audience more viscerally than gaming: it's time everyone else paid attention.

AFTRS Open: Speed Networking, Intro to Docos, Intro to Directing: Kriv Stenders, TV Assistant Editor
Just announced as part of VIVID SYDNEY 2016 - SPEED NETWORKING AT AFTRS to help screen practitioners find creative collaborators,…

Daily Ratings: week beginning Sunday March 20 2016 - the whole batch
Seven has first week of AFL which costs Nine 3.2%; ABC has righteous stability. Audience figures crappy.

Jacoby - Walkley Scholarship open again
The Jacoby- Walkley Scholarship is turning out to be a useful career move, on top of a lot of interesting…

Box Office 21 March 2016 - in which The Daughter takes wing
Once a duck [as in the Ibsen play] always a duck [as in the classically derived The Daughter] but Australian…