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A Career Coach’s Guide to Self Care and Positivity for the long haul
Veteran Emmy and AACTA Award-winning producer Ellenor Cox is a coach and mentor. Here are her survival strategies for staying…

Risky Business: New Assessment Tool released by SAFC
As COVID strikes, what do producers do if something goes terribly wrong? There's a way to work that out, started…

Film Review: 'The Very Excellent Mr Dundee' is a trainwreck
For reviewer Anthony Morris, the Paul Hogan comedy makes a series of bizarre and problematic choices that don't add up…

Australian Directors' Guild announces 2020 Nominees
There were nearly double the entries this year, with a slew of new and established directing talent recognised. Watch these…

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…