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Sustainability: documentary, philanthropy and the public interest
Blocked from access to public money and airwaves, documentary makers are forming alliances with the philanthropic sector. The Documentary Australia…
Media Reform: Greens extract unexpected concession for screen sector
The Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (Convergence Review and Other Measures) Bill 2013, utterly unchanged after desperate lobbying by the screen sector,…
Haute Cuisine
Catherine Frot is Hortense Laborie, a chef whose life is tipped upside down when she is appointed as personal cook…
Hong Kong 2013: away from red carpet distractions, the dealing gets under way
Finding the film market in Hong Kong is like opening a set of Chinese nested boxes, a tradition which goes…
Open Channel: the case of the vanishing students
Open Channel has a nifty scriptwriting course which provides excellent development support for projects. Last year, from ten projects, three…
Box Office: 17/03/13 figures still dull as The Sapphires heads for US release
Goddess opens fourth on the national top twenty league tables. Sadly, it secured that slot with relatively low figures.
Hong Kong Filmart 2013: China looks for more take-away
The opening conference session of Filmart addressed the issue of marketing Chinese language films internationally - a story which would…
Hong Kong Filmart 2013: sleazy does it
Sitting alongside the more artistically-driven satisfactions of the Asian Film Awards and HKIFF programme, the far more commercially-focused Filmart does…
Figaro Pho: selling like hot chocolate
Kids series The Adventures of Figaro Pho (from the Chocolate Liberation Front and Ambience Entertainment) is selling well ahead of…
Ratings: Sunday 17th March 2013
Ten did well with the F1 Grand Prix at 1.226m. Biggest Loser down at 815,000