Features
Free TV Australia: the spectrum is ours, Precious-s-s-s
Speaking at the Australian Communications and Media Authority's RadComm conference, called for "spectrum certainty for broadcasters, in recognition that Australians…
QPIX: alone and unfunded with new advanced diploma
Queensland's screen development organisation, QPIX, has brushed aside the withdrawal of state government funding (and subsequent loss of tied Screen…
Cheeky Little Media: raising the ambient temperature of kids' animation
Behind the announcement by David Webster and Patrick Egerton that they have established a new children’s television outfit called Cheeky…
Brief: Iranian Film Festival starts from Brisbane
Iranian films tend to make true filmlovers happy - beautifully made, modestly conceived, from a very foreign culture and a…
Chinese Factual: initial fears before a long haul
Screen Australia's latest delegation to Beijing is the first official group to focus on factual entertainment. The role of government…
Brief: Catalonia pays homage to five Australian films
This year's Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia has once again been a fertile hunting ground for feral Australian…
NBN: Watch the deckchair. See it glide about. This ship is called The Titanic
After so much uncertainty, Dr O'D can now get forensic on a government that is forced beyond rhetoric into the…
James Packer: brings gambler's instincts back to film
James Packer, through his company RatPac, has done a deal with Warner Bros. To co-finance as many as seventy-five films,…
Alternative Distribution: Scrine waits to get head stomped, Simpson dodges bottle tops and Henkel tr
It is no surprise that John L. Simpson and Gil Scrine are both fascinated by distribution, exhibition and provoking their…
SPAA's Screen Forever filling out program and guest list
Richard Freudenstein, CEO and MD of Foxtel, replacing Kim Williams who gets the Hector Crawford slot to himself, will be…