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Bruce Miller, project creator and an executive producer on The Handmaid's Tale, talks producing. 'I'll sacrifice everything to give my actors a chance to do their job.'

NZ Film academic Dr Gabriel Reid offers an insight into what has been an extraordinary year for the industry, particularly in Aotearoa.

The public argument about the Martin Bryant project is very close to home for the screen sector. Should we be prejudged? Are some ideas beyond the pale?

As the publicity caravan moves on, we can sense the longer term influences which shaped this year's AACTA results.

Is it too soon to make a film on the 1996 Port Arthur massacre? A trauma expert's perspective.

As videogame technology becomes even more relevant to a wider range of industries, how do we ensure rural communities aren't being left behind?

To mark International Day of People with Disability, Stan adds an award-winning Australian doco about the search for intimacy by young gay playwright with cerebral palsy. The film's director-producer Pip Kelly tells us about making it and getting it on TV.

‘The one thing that you always have as a politician is a platform. I really want to put the enormous potential of the Australian videogame industry on that platform.’

Screenhub revels in the annual Screen Music Awards because the creators are challenged to be daring, to search the world for the rights sounds, and open themselves to such interesting emotions.

A turn to older audiences underlies Rams, and gives a bit of bite to some imported flicks as well, as we get some US Hulu releases in our cinemas.

Our democratic hearts would love to see a broad sprinkling of glory but two productions dominated. All the winners are listed here and congratulations to them.

Sustaining the highest sound and post production quality is a kind of religion, and its Sydney temple is under new management.

Asia Pacific Screen Awards went to Thai creative producer Soros Sukhum, young Indian filmmaker Akshay Indikar, and a special mention for Australia's High Ground.

It's back to the future as the government lays out plans for two new media sector support funds, extracting cash from the streaming companies, and nagging the government broadcasters. All without paying for it.

Powerful white men will continue to dominate unless there’s a real revolution for diversity in our media, argues Cross-Cultural Consultant Tasneem Chopra OAM.

Wringing blood from the budget stone the public broadcasters lay out their wares for the year ahead. Our fortnightly round-up of news, interviews and opinions from Australian film, TV and games.

Documenting the 14-year campaign for women's jobs in Wollongong, Robynne Murphy's film honours dogged perseverance and collective activism.

Combine the strange rules of screen production research with a pandemic and the resulting space-time ruckus is a true headache. We suffer so you don't have to.

Hear the rumbles across the bridge to tomorrow? It is Screen Forever rolling out its first international mega-guests.

Violence in Central Africa is so bound up with the minerals used in consumer tech, some call it the PlayStation War. Here are Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft's annual reports on their conflict minerals supply chains.