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Tropfest 2013: Bamboozled into twitter fight
The first December Tropfest, completing 2013, has left a fair swag of people pissed by the winning film's apparent homophobia.…
Screen Music Awards 2013: let their song be sung
As always the musicians delivered one of the niftiest awards nights on the calendar, but with an unusual interruption. Antony…
Ender’s Game
A striving but stilted tale of kids versus kids is the latest from X-Men Origins: Wolverine director Gavin Hood.
Winning Tropfest film ‘homophobic and transphobic’
The winning film at this year’s Tropfest short film festival has been widely criticised.
Sundance: Two Australian productions for key showcase
The Sundance Festival will unrol 52 Tuesdays and Babadook as part of a lineup which is said to generally skew…
Screen Singapore and the Asian Television Forum 2013: China and that pesky IPTV stuff
Two years ago, the official censorship branch of the Chinese government was punishing channels for broadcasting too many shows which…
BIFA: looks beyond UK shores
The British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) made Sean Ellis' Metro Manila, a Philippines-set and -shot Tagalog language film, the biggest…
Dennis O'Rourke: Aliquando et insanire iucundum Connollius
You have to hand it to the documentary community - they know how to turn grief into a story. Exhibit…
Feature Documentary: squaring for a new funding opportunity
The Shark island Institute and the Documentary Australia Foundation has picked up on an international funding system that pumped $11.5m…
Chinese Cinema: its all in the numbers
Compared to 1.6b people plus an uncounted number of travellers, the growth figures for Chinese cinema are still modest. But…