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The Best TV of 2020: a year in search of escape
These were the shows that delivered us from lockdown, with a focus on Australian content but not exclusively. From Mystery…
Sundance 2021 snaps up three Australian films
A genre-spanning selection includes VR film 'Prison X - Chapter 1: The Devil & The Sun', feature documentary 'Playing with…
Best Australian Films 2020: plunging into genre, betting the audience gets the point
As the screen sector contemplates the same small group of films, we ask what we mean by quality.
Box Office: dark fantasies loosed over pandemic Xmas
This year the US is not a fount of soppy joy in the cinemas, even though the projects were greenlit…
2020 year in policy – seeing the world in a different way
2020 was finally a year of big change in Australian screen policy, while we as people were tested to find…
Screen composers speak for wider sector as they confront a new future
Tax, residuals, collapsing budgets, the dangers of streaming deals – the Australian Guild of Screen Composers finds tears in the…
Screen News in Brief: Australia's summer films catch fire, doco funding announced and more
We're heading back to cinemas; Causeway's supernatural horror comes home from Serbia; and awards, opportunities and opinions abound in this…
Diverse screen producers, apply for these 2021 opportunities now
Here’s a roundup of opportunities in 2021 for LGBTQIA+, POC, Indigenous, Disabled, and gender diverse screen producers. Applications open now.
AIDC creates its own awards, with just a touch of defiance
The deadline for the AIDC awards for completed projects is December 16, as the organisation embraces the power of competition.
AWGIES 2020 bow down to a one-woman theatre show
Suzie Miller's quietly spectacular international career in theatre, informed by an education in science, law and theatre, adds a prime…