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AIDC: the guestlist grows, with only fourteen sleeps to go
The AIDC is continuing to confirm guests like a kid in a lollyshop. There are some impressive people and some…
Stacey Parks: DIY funding and distro
Stacey Parks will soon be arriving in Adelaide to conduct a workshop on how to make, market and sell films…
Sydney Film Festival: votes, balance sheets, speeches and annual reports
After decades intimately involved with the Sydney Film Festival, Tina Kaufman is an excellent person to peruse the Annual General…
Minnie Loves Junior: backstory better than the film
Minnie Loves Junior is a sweet little short which got into Berlin. For the grown-ups, the story of the producers…
Offset and Documentary: skirmishes in AAT continue
If Screen Australia refuses to issue an tax offset certificate to filmmakers, they can take the case to the Administrative…
Brief: The Games George Miller plays
What is happening about the Mad Max: Fury Road game?
New Media Funding: world's most experienced veteran speaks
Andra Sheffer, who runs the three funds for Bell in Canada, has arguably more experience in external support for the…
Pinnacle Films: sharks, heelers and cane toads
Six months into life under its own name, Pinnacle Films has secured an intriguing lineup of flicks to flog in…
BIFF: something old, something new, something borrowed, plenty blue
BIFF reaches for its audience with chutzpah, sang-froid and rubber sharks, as Tina Kaufman contemplates from afar.
Red Riding Trilogy: SBS fascinates filmmakers in killer week
As crime genre takes over our TV drama, and filmmakers wrestle with fact-based fiction, Michael Winterbottom's production company has taken…