Features

ABC and SBS: cuts mooted but no shotgun marriage
Why is the Lewis report into the ABC and SBS so secret? Nothing in the report suggests the downfall of…

Martin Potter: Big Stories, Small Towns: Asia Pacific
Martin Potter provides further background into the expansive Big Stories, Small Towns project.

Sarah Spillane: Around the Block
The writer/director Sarah Spillane explores Hamlet, philosophy and indigenous culture in the new film, Around the Block.

Arthur Cambridge: death of a colour grader
Arthur Cambridge, the legendary film grader from Colorfilm and later Atlab, has died.

Britdoc Foundation: "the independence of the filmmaker should be sacrosanct"
Goodpitch2. Britdoc. Slo-mo revolution. Meet Beadie Finzi, provocateur and speaker of home truths.

Anna Grieve: Big Stories, Small Towns: Asia Pacific
Big Stories, Small Towns was launched in 2008 as a multiplatform documentary project. It’s now expanding into the Asia Pacific.

Artists on the dole: the cost of the cuts
Many artists under 30 rely on Newstart to supplement dismal incomes. How much hardship will Joe Hockey's benefit cuts cause?

Union and employers co-operate to push new funding scheme
The industry union MEAA is joining with the producers' association SPA in a radical new proposal to support low budget…

Marion Pilowsky: the challenges of changing roles
Highly established EP and producer Marion Pilowsky has been making the move into writing and directing.

NZ bureaucracy: Physical conglom? No. Virtual agency – yes.
With a much smaller country and little room to grow agencies, the New Zealanders have built a new kind of…