Features
Attracting International Productions: NZ contemplates itself, and Australia
Both Australia and New Zealand are desperate for large international productions in film and television. How does the attractions game…
Ratings: Sunday, 25th November 2012
Wallander may be must-see viewing for the gloomier members of our industry, but it doesn't make the top fifteen nationally.…
First of a Kind, Last of the Bunch: extending the compendium edition
By popular demand, Dr Vincent O'Donnell has extended access to the whole collection of stories about the origins of the…
Indian Screen Business: working with producers who want to make a profit in four days flat
Take one Indian film bureaucrat, ask him to contemplate the attempts by Australian agencies to explore the Indian film market,…
BIFFDOCS 2012: luck, vision, education, irony and the rise and rise of Lauren Greenfield
The Queen of Versailles is both a rip-roaring film about some outrageous characters, and a moral fable about the economic…
March of the Moguls: Australia's grimmest televsion figures
Comparing the audience figures over a decade, Dr O'D discovers a shambles of tumbling brands and radical changes in Australian…
BIFF documentary award: backs Queen of Versailles
The winner of the succulent $25,000 BIFFDOCS award is... (drumroll) The Queen of Versailles, from venerated photographer Lauren Greenfield.
ABC Tasmania: response from Friends of the ABC
Public broadcasting needs all the friends it can get, but the response of Friends of the ABC (Vic) to the…
Flying Bark: To Bee, or not to 3D Bee?
Flying Bark Productions has announced that it will be producing a "3D stereoscopic movie" of the children's television property Maya…
Ratings: Wednesday, 21st November 2012
Seven slaughters all. Ten over ABC by a whisker. All cops.