Features
Playpen: spycam reveals truth about producing
Here is secret footage of a producer desperately lining up all the elements to finance a film. Can you pick…
Harvey Weinstein: the Canberra prowl
The Canberra International Film Festival has sent crack ASIO trained ornithologists to find the most outlandishly interesting dealmakers in the…
SPAA Conference: market component revamped, breaking down the walls, returning to a sense of fun
With the SPAA Conference now rebadged as ‘Screen Forever’, the familiar SPAAmart has also morphed into the Screen Forever International…
Joel Edgerton: feature debut revealed in Canada, to be US Weirdo
Fresh off his triumph at TIFF, the star-writer of Felony is moving onto American shores to make his next feature,…
Ratings: Thursday, 19th September 2013
Even though the seasons is heading for its climax, the Footy Show lost 94,000. That is enough to ensure that…
Ratings: Wednesday, 18th September 2013 - Gruen still rools
The Hamster is back in its box, The Bachelor has been moved and Julia Zemiro has been on her best…
Reach Rule: the reason behind the committee decision
Ian Robertson examines the reasons behind the parliamentary committee's recommendation that the 75 percent reach rule for television networks should…
Crowd Funding: government reviewing equity investment model
The Australian Government is reviewing crowd funding, but the focus is equity investment, and no change is expected for short…
Festival des Antipodes 2013: the world's only real festival of antipodean films
As always, the Festival des Antipodes allows an open but idiosyncratic take on Australian, New Zealand and now Indonesian films.…
Ratings: Tuesday, 17th September 2013
Tuesday night stays dull, dull, dull as nothing moves and the marketing gurus at Ten tell their grumpy masters that…