Features
Vale John Sumner: father of Australian actors and writers
Back in the 1950s, John Sumner did something truly shocking: he mounted a professional production of an Australian play, Ray…
Senate Estimates May 2013: ABC admits to programming black hole, gets caught in accusations of race
The transcript for the May 2013 post-budget Senate Estimates suggest that the ABC Managing Director Mark Scott had a pretty…
Ratings: Thursday, 30th May 2013
Seven can't get past The Block and the footy.
Brief: new faces at Film Victoria, with one familiar face to leave
Charlie Carman, the manager script development for six years will leave Film Victoria on July 19th. Meanwhile, Clara Reeves, Jeni…
Cannes 2013: The Australian impact on Cannes - honestly
The industry may think a film is Australian because our mob made it for an international market, but the festival…
Cannes 2013: financing trends and realities, part two
"Film has become a place where capital meets opportunity... What’s harder for us is financing vehicles that are very dependent…
Cannes 2013: challenges in film financing, part one
Why are mid-range films being burnt out of the market? 'Risk to reward ratio' say the bankers who control the…
Ratings: Wednesday 29th May 2013
Offspring delivers 798,000 for Ten, while The Block keeps Nine in the game just behind Seven.
Cannes 2013: An Australian perspective on the market
Part of any market is reading the entrails - was it a good market, a bad one, or somewhere in…
Blue Post: move to Sydney reflects slo-mo ferment in TV sector
The post-production market is segmented, specialised and very, very dependent on the quality of key staff. Blue Post's move into…