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Noel Monkman: the iconically Australian film pioneers you have never heard of
The ancestral beings of the Australian film industry are well known and revered, from Lotte Lyall to the Chauvels, Damien…
VFX TV Workflow: realising the impossible dreams
Cinema scale VRFX, with its vision and fantastically disciplined workflow, is too complex for television, right? This is how they…
Vale John Sumner: father of Australian actors and writers
Back in the 1950s, John Sumner did something truly shocking: he mounted a professional production of an Australian play, Ray…
Senate Estimates May 2013: ABC admits to programming black hole, gets caught in accusations of race
The transcript for the May 2013 post-budget Senate Estimates suggest that the ABC Managing Director Mark Scott had a pretty…
Ratings: Thursday, 30th May 2013
Seven can't get past The Block and the footy.
Brief: new faces at Film Victoria, with one familiar face to leave
Charlie Carman, the manager script development for six years will leave Film Victoria on July 19th. Meanwhile, Clara Reeves, Jeni…
Cannes 2013: The Australian impact on Cannes - honestly
The industry may think a film is Australian because our mob made it for an international market, but the festival…
Cannes 2013: financing trends and realities, part two
"Film has become a place where capital meets opportunity... What’s harder for us is financing vehicles that are very dependent…
Cannes 2013: challenges in film financing, part one
Why are mid-range films being burnt out of the market? 'Risk to reward ratio' say the bankers who control the…
Ratings: Wednesday 29th May 2013
Offspring delivers 798,000 for Ten, while The Block keeps Nine in the game just behind Seven.