Features
Iain Banks: great popular fiction writer dead at 59
Iain Banks, aka Iain M. Banks was a very fine novelist, a fabulous ranter, smart on web publishing, and an…
Bananas in Pyjamas: nation goes bananas over premature obituary
Bananas is axed, quoth the Fairfax Press. No, no, just photosynthesising between theathons, saith the ABC. Parents of Australia put…
Playpen: making the Blackwater battle
Game of Thrones now has serious cult status, and the DVD extras have swarmed onto the net. Here is our…
SFF 2013: the great and the glamorous entranced by Mystery Road
A tough Indigenous film from Ivan Sen, surely one of the most uncompromising directors in Australia, could have gone either…
Post Production: large new brand lands in marketplace, makes pitch for business
Once Deluxe bought companies from Omnilab, it had to integrate an impressive collection of specialist businesses, some in competition with…
Ratings: Thursday, 6th June 2013
The Block is delivering for Nine. Best foreign show is Ten's Law and Order, down at number 13. Since the…
NSW: responds to Creative Industries Action Plan with inaction
The NSW Government Creative Industries Plan aims to grow the creative sector without public investment. Screen gets priority of a…
Heritage Project: AFTRS Lecturer signs revolutionary publishing deal
Two Australian creatives, including AFTRS Screen Studies Lecturer, Mike Jones, have signed a revolutionary deal with publisher Simon & Schuster,…
Brief: Screen Australia's Signature Docs for June 2013
$1.4m invested, triggering $3.5m on seven projects, including some transmedia. Ironically, one of those is about the least internetty place…
Brief: Kodak hypnotises all six major studios
Kodak has announced contracts to supply Twentieth Century Fox with film stock, thus creating a matched set of all the…