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How to succeed in artistic business - weaponise self knowledge, with your friends
Prosperity for sole trader artists is about some business knowledge pumped up with a good dose of empowerment. Enter Monica…

AIDC 2019: learning from experience at Pitch Australiana
'We went home, tightened it, practiced and practiced and practiced, and then forgot it all when we delivered it!’ -…

AIDC 2019: John Brown hears pictures and films animals.
Key wildlife cinematographer John Brown has two superpowers - he cherishes his friends and has a rare brain condition called…

AIDC keynote: Diane Weyermann's inside story on Participant Media
Participant Media is a key company in progressive indie US production, and Diane Weyermann is a core changemaker.

AIDC 2019: Lisa Jackson's First Nations VR expands future of docs
Backed by the might of the Canadian National Film Board's commitment to digital experiments, First Nations filmmaker Lisa Jackson tests…

Captain Marvel in marvellous sector rebound: Box Office 11 March 2019
While Captain Marvel storms in, a bunch of interesting smaller pictures are hanging on. Is this both ends against a…

'Creative Intelligence': Dr Chris Stevens brings science to the art of ideas
Einstein said that 'creativity is intelligence having fun'. Can we do that too?

Guild Roundup 8 March 2019 - Screenworks job, SBS on toast with SPA...
SPA is tangling with the SBS MD at breakfast, the Tasmanians get cosy with Pauline while the editors in Victoria…

Around the web - what did we spy with our little eye in the week of 8 March?
This week our links find the fight between Spielberg and Netflix, the death of Les Carlyon and the best video…

AIDC 2019: Jennifer Peedom and the changing role of scripts
The collision between a true story and a structured script ahows us how stories shapes the world.