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Producer Offset, Legal Essentials, Doco Interviews, Directing Masterclass, Screenwriting & More!
This weekend @ AFTRS Open: PRODUCER OFFSET and Daina Reid’s DIRECTING MASTERCLASS. Next week Robin Hughes DOCUMENTARY INTERVIEWS. In March:…

Ride Along 2
More of the same is exactly what it sounds like with this odd couple cop sequel, though that's rarely a…

How the Oscars mess up your viewing pleasure
As the Oscars clump the best films early in the year, March may be a wasteland with little more than…

Tropfest: victory over time and space
Tropfest's is back - and so is the Blue Tongue Federation, as the company climbs the winner's podium with a…

National Ratings week beginning Sunday 14 Feb 2016 - the whole batch
Take the food away from Seven and it collapses. Just like every other year. But the ferocity of its victory…

Oscars 2016 - all the entrails are now on the table
Don't bet the house on Fury Road, though the odds will now be tempting. Is it possible that Room could…

Box Office 15 Feb 2016 - Here come the Oscar littlies
Image: Deadpool. Star Wars: the Force Awakens, has just become the highest grossing film ever, with over US$2b at the…

AIDC pulses with Ackermanic mentor program
Ticking off its daily targets, the AIDC releases its list of Pulse mentees, who will touch the mainstream with Roy…

Showcase: flying and sighing and not sicking up
Like Fury Road, Happyband OK Go is determined to utilise in-camera SFX. In this case, the challenge is to do…

Controversial SBS Chair Nihal Gupta leaves plum job
The strange, shadowy story of Nihal Gupta's appointment as Chair of SBS takes another turn, as he resigns abruptly for…