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Robust, Relevant and Diverse: Documentaries at Sydney Film Festival
The ten Australian films vying for the $10,000 Documentary Prize are a quietly effective bunch, revealing much about the evolution…
Greens get Senate agreement to nail down Netflix
The world will not be transformed by this moment of Parliamentary approval, but at least the Senate seems to get…
Defiance, progress and big ideas celebrated in international kids' TV awards
Australians are used to doing well at prime kids' TV moment the international Prix Jeunesse Awards. But this is the…
Women on Top: Sydney Film Festival Highlights
It's possible to view the best of this pared-down program and not see a single film by a man. Critic…
$1 million in relief funding from Netflix and Support Act
Created with Support Act, the fund will provide $1000 one-time benefits to below-the-line Australian screen talent affected by COVID-19
Can we out-compete the world in production hunt?
Australia looks good in the international marketplace but the competition will get fiercer and fiercer. We have to urgently solve…
Who made the Queens Birthday Honours List 2020?
In a list that is heavily weighted towards the law and politics this year, the arts barely gets a look…
'I'm always in the black show, the black play.'
Actor and playwright Meyne Wyatt delivered three minutes of explosive television on Q&A last night. It's a war cry against…
Queens Birthday Honours 2020 finds two fierce and modest film and TV veterans
Writer and director Jan Sardi, and production designer Robbie Perkins are significant in very different ways in lives well lived.
Jacob Hickey on making factual TV with purpose
Blackfella's head of factual talks about keeping a format fresh and avoiding tackiness in the third season of SBS's 'Filthy…