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Sydney Film Festival discovers the virtues of virtual though real life is better
It worked, says the Sydney Film Festival of its COVID-19 Defiance Edition, and reveals the numbers to prove it.
This week at the box office: the familiar made new
This week at the box office, audiences see the classics reimagined, the familiar rendered horrific – and an Icelandic film…
SBS' The Feed presents 'Story Line': stories from 6 months of COVID-19
The half-hour documentary is based on voice recordings from around the country. It premieres next week.
The real cost of defunding the ABC
ABC funding cuts undervalue both the arts and contemporary stories in our multicultural Australia, argues Vyshnavee Wijekumar.
What We're Watching: Apocalypse in July
The second lockdown may have dampened the spirits of our Melbourne office, but it has had quite the opposite effect…
Smart thinking and great home viewing as live audiences evaporate
A small documentary festival in Castlemaine, pioneers in WA Rev it up, and six strangers on Zoom across Australia launch…
Anna Kaplan: You have to live and breathe your message
Greening Australia's screen industry is the goal for our best-known Impact Producer, the most recent recipient of the Natalie Miller…
Film industry heavyweights pen open letter to 'Mukbang' critics
'Something is dangerously askew in the way that we are talking about race in the arts in this country, and…
Global screen industry grinds back into gear
Big gestures are being made around the world to get the studios humming but what how is the rest of…
TV Review: Retrograde is a lockdown sitcom where friendship is key
Making use of the grammar of lockdown-filmed-at-home comedy, this ABC ensemble show feels funny and familiar, writes Anthony Morris.