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Sundance Shorts Program: Australians bring some rural roots to international teams
Despite a strong focus on North America and Europe, a pair of projects with a connection to Australia have crept…
AIDC 2014: covers come off on a new design
The Australian International Documentary Conference has gone from makeover to full chassis rebuild as it sets out to deliver on…
Screen Australia: feature development tranche decides who types over Christmas
Fifteen projects, $424,000, some new names and some old friends back again. Rosemary Blight, Sue Maslin and Ian Collie are…
AACTA: Titan v Tiddler as opposites face off
In the film nominations, the same films are always jostling against each other again and again. How does this play…
Tropfest 2013: Bamboozled into twitter fight
The first December Tropfest, completing 2013, has left a fair swag of people pissed by the winning film's apparent homophobia.…
Screen Music Awards 2013: let their song be sung
As always the musicians delivered one of the niftiest awards nights on the calendar, but with an unusual interruption. Antony…
Sundance: Two Australian productions for key showcase
The Sundance Festival will unrol 52 Tuesdays and Babadook as part of a lineup which is said to generally skew…
Screen Singapore and the Asian Television Forum 2013: China and that pesky IPTV stuff
Two years ago, the official censorship branch of the Chinese government was punishing channels for broadcasting too many shows which…
Dennis O'Rourke: Aliquando et insanire iucundum Connollius
You have to hand it to the documentary community - they know how to turn grief into a story. Exhibit…
Feature Documentary: squaring for a new funding opportunity
The Shark island Institute and the Documentary Australia Foundation has picked up on an international funding system that pumped $11.5m…