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ADG Conference 2013: when all else fails, try madness
Burning away beneath the very real concerns expressed throughout the two-day conference that the funding model for Australian films was…
Robert Connolly: Paper Planes soar around Perth
Robert Connolly has admitted he wants to make a film he can take his children to see. This is his…
ADG Conference 2013: Is there a formula for success? No.
For Tina Kaufman, the ADG conference added up to a lot of very individual approaches, lashed together with industrial issues,…
FremantleMedia: Germans think Wentworth is Wunder-Bars
FremantleMedia has announced plans to make a ten-episode, German-language version of prison drama Wentworth. The series will be shot in…
Ratings: Thursday, 7th November 2013
Seven climbed from 28.6% to 33.5% on the nightly share compared to last Thursday, all on the back of an…
Ian Robertson: plants his own flag in the taxation sands
Ian Robertson, President of the Film Victoria Board, Director of Beyond International, just former Deputy Chair of the Screen Australia…
Piracy: some figures, both cruel and true
Dr O'D is about to tell his Arts Alive radio show [syndicated to a public radio station near you] some…
Screen Australia: signature docs well beyond the broadcast sector
With six more Signature docs funded, for which it contributes $1m into the $2.1m budgets, Screen Australia opens the door…
March of the Moguls: behaving as if Britain does not exist
The Murdoch problem and proposals to regulate the press in the UK are a weird mirror image of our issues.…
Ratings: Wednesday, 6th November 2013
For one night only, Nine has the same chance to crush the opposition that Seven deploys rather more regularly. Big…