Features
Microbudget films - just make a batch, add producers and fire up the oven
Almost all Australian microbudget features are funded by rummaging around in community resources. Can they be supported by government schemes?
Screen NSW: Courtney Gibson adds her unique energy to peak Sydney agency
The new head of Screen NSW is television expert and industry executive Courtney Gibson.
Box Office: 1 Sept 2015 from Holding the Man to Furiosa's surprising fame
Nice result for Holding the Man as the Last Cab keeps driving round town and Fury Road gets kissed by…
Melbourne, Sydney and the exploding film festivals
Audiences are pouring into modern film festivals, fuelled by a new generation, digital conversations and the simple desire to sit…
Where did all the movies go? The battle for screens in your local multiplex
Arthouse lovers are racing to see films before they disappear. Australian films don't get wide release. Can we tip the…
Box Office: Cab film still doing well on 23 August 2015.
The Last Cab to Darwin is beginning to look like a money truck on the road north.
Holding the Man: from page to stage to screen
The ‘monumentally loved’ memoir by Timothy Conigrave is now a feature film: we track its convoluted journey to Australian cinemas.
Seven keys to a documentary renaissance
Battered and compulsively evolving, independent documentaries are challenged to justify themselves at MIFF. Of course, they succeed.
ACMI: an analogue museum for the digital world
Five months in ACMI CEO Katrina Sedgwick reflects on transforming Australia's only museum of the moving image into a human…
Box Office Bizarro: 17 August with an evil moment in The Gift
Joel Edgerton's The Gift does well on wide release in the US. It also scored a truly strange and ugly…