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Sundance: two Australian projects in fest, as easy ideas of identity collapse
Top of the Lake, the Campion series executive produced by Emile Sherman and Iain Canning, is to screen in full…
Screen NSW: steady as it goes with Board
The NSW government seems to be pretty happy with the board of Screen NSW. Two members up for reappointment have…
Documentary Walkley Awards: titan v minnow
Three documentaries are nominated for the Walkley Awards, one from the ABC in-house Four Corners team, and two from the…
BIFF: iconoclastic artistic director removed from post
Richard Moore today confirmed that his contract as head of screen culture at Screen Queensland will not be renewed, after…
Marcia Russell: death of pioneer New Zealand journalist and documentary maker
Known to the Australian documentary sector as the maker of two important series about New Zealand politics and history, Marcia…
Walkey Awards: Rebel Films gets respectable at Walkleys
The documentary Walkley for 2012 went to Celeste Geer and Rebel Films for Then the Wind Changed, about a community…
Matchbox: ABC Head of Comedy joins independent sector
ABC Head of Comedy, Debbie Lee, is leaving the national broadcaster to take over as Director of Scripted Development at…
Australian content: sector stiffed on vague chance of ALP victory in 2013
Early indications are that the Australian television sector has been given a swift lesson in political cynicism by the events…
Albie Thoms: dead at the age of 72
Albie Thoms was both a pioneer, a staunch individualist and a beloved ratbag. Knowing he was dying of cancer, he…
Brief: Screen West gets new chair along with board changes
The new chair is Peter Rowe, while Janelle Marr and Dax Calder have been appointed and Alan Lindsay reappointed.