Features

ABC: New managing director brings varied background
Lawyer and Murdoch media executive Michelle Guthrie will leave her job with Google in Singapore.

Screen Australia horror cuts in squalid backroom shakedown
Government cuts Screen Australia for third time in three years, to fund Hollywood to bring those footloose productions to Australia.

Being part of the arts
Encouraging transparency and participation, the 2016 ArtsHub Conference will provide the sector with an opportunity to get answers from industry…

Screen Forever 2015: Truth and documentaries
True stories are both inspiration and prison. Walking that fine line is a challenge for writers and a pleasure for…

Screen Forever 2015: Working with China
Oh boy! Fragmentation of the audience is one thing, but the fragmentation of an audience of 1.6 billion is something…

Screen Australia's Gender Matters Program - maybe it won't work
Does Gender Matters truly redefine the rules of the funding game, or are the dice loaded against success? Three key…

Three ways Screen Australia can actually improve diversity in the industry
Deb Verhoeven adds a timely note of caution in the current euphoria about positive moves on gender in the screen…

ABC Arts: online opportunities for filmmakers and artists
Want to work on a series of short films about the arts for ABC Online Arts? Step right up and…

Fifth AFI/AACTAs completely as expected
If you had bet on the most rationally predictable outcome in each category, you would have been pretty well on…

Regional Media Changes - Orwell goes to the bush
The regional broadcasters are asking that the rules to protect them be abolished. Um... how does that help local broadcasting?