National
Ratings: Monday 27th January 2014
Ratings are back, officially, though they never really went away. Yes, Home and Away has blasted up to 1.879, and…
Ratings: Tuesday, 28th January 2014
Ten runs a cruddy 15.1% while the ABC scrapes 21%. Seven has the category killers but is much less triumphant…
Batam Studio: changing the facilities landscape one mangrove at a time
In which our correspondent, Dr O'D, turns into a modern day Mr Kurtz, and travels to a remarkable Indonesian studio..…
Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum 2014: this year, no Australasian action
The Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum is a fascinating window into the exploding Asian and Pacific production market dedicated to…
Babadook: that sale to IFC Midnight
Part of the hot news for Australians from Sundance was the sale of The Babadook to important international markets. But…
AACTA 2014: Bazzing the Living Daylights out of it
Our resident AACTA expert Rochelle Siemienowicz stays off the crab and champers to deconstruct the 3rd AACTA Awards Luncheon, and…
Utopia
This film is at its most potent in illuminating and sometimes heated interviews with those at the centre of Pilger's…
Sundance: Sophie Hyde wins after 52 Tuesdays
Sophie Hyde has taken the World Cinema directing award at the Sundance Festival for 52 Tuesdays, made through the Adelaide…
HAF: stays closer to home
The Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF) announces its 2014 projects, including two from Filipino festival favourite Brillante Mendoza and…
AACTA 2014:the first batch of winners
Here is the list… Gatsby has everything not nailed down and producers may well have brought claw hammers in their…