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Rise of the robot actor, crouching in your telephone
You want to sell your script? Leave it to your robot minions.
Student sews up cinematic heritage
Elliot Schutz combines persistence of vision and a family passion for making Irish dancing costumes to create a sweet riff…
Networks flinging pies in Federal Court over twinned cooking show
There's nothing like a good legal stoush to get the suits in a slow motion frenzy, and Nine has made…
Documentary Ethics: a window into extremity
OzDocs explores documentary ethics and puts the lot on Youtube, creating a kind of documentary in itself.
Books at MIFF: how The Dressmaker was adapted into a film starring Kate Winslet
The film of Rosalie Ham’s 2000 novel The Dressmaker will gain greater recognition for the author. EPA/TAL COHEN The Books at MIFF event…
MIFF 2015: 370 worlds cast loose on darkened city
The Melbourne International Film Festival launches immediately into deep stuff and defiant purity. Paul Cox takes the screen.
Screen Australia: where to, after the exhibition crisis?
Film producers know the exhibition landscape is getting steadily worse. Screen Australia collates the figures to show why.
Muscling up the multimedia drama push, one Screen Australia tranche at a time
From act of lunacy to sensible career path, online drama producers keep hammering on the door.
Celebrities from old movies star in national portrait tour
The National Film and Sound Archive is joining with the National Portrait Gallery to finally unveil secrets of its stills…
Fighting back against the populist documentary
The quiet, serious craft documentary is facing a harder sell as a few populist features dominate cinema audiences.