Features

Box Office 30 November 2015 - Dressmaker faces new round of competition
Post Thanksgiving, the US competition gets real again. We are slowing down as a nation while the US ramps up.

Screen Forever 2015: Casting for the Money
The strategies behind casting a film are full of debate, contradictions and grim realism. So how can you get a…

Screen Forever 2015: the unvarnished truth about the Enterprise Program
What does success mean for an Enterprise recipient? Wildbear, Matchbox and Playmaker have different answers.

APSA 2015: tracking the rise and rise of Asian cinema for the west
APSA 2015 gave Spear and Stephen Page a small space in a special mention, while Best Feature went to an…

AFTRS: let the Great Skills Survey begin
The Australian Film, Television and Radio School has just started an online skills survey which could change its role in…

Teens audiences: never too young for nostalgia
To capture teens and tween audiences, we need to know how they see the world. The research results are often…

Box Office Monday 23 November 2015 - frocking up a nation
Getting on for a million Australians have paid actual cash to see The Dressmaker. We have to face the possibility…

Screen Forever 2015: top competitors in a small ecology
There's a small production company in Alice Springs that will ring with joy over the Screen Producers Awards, as it…

Screen Forever 2015: ALP gnaws government over screen cuts
Mark Dreyfus and Mitch Fifield faced each other in a Dad and Dave moment orchstrated by Screen Producers Australia -…

Why funding applications fail
Experts from Australia Council, Creative Victoria, Arts Queensland and more tell you what you are doing wrong when applying for…