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What's On Screen? 9 August 2018 - The Living Universe, the Breaker Upperers and good festy fare.
Two festivals, from India and Turkey, compete with MIFF while Australian mega-doc about interstellar travel, The Living Universe, has a…
Putting a Knife between her Teeth. Two awards invite applications from women in film.
One hundred years ago, Lottie Lyell made a feminist film in South Australia. Now there's a $20,000 award in her…
Ad-free streaming services a threat to the whole system?
Streaming services are happy disruptors, but they could warp the system in more profound ways than we think.
Box Office 6 August 2018 - Mission Impossible and a Skyscraper in China
Why has Skyscraper done so well in China? We reckon The Breaker Upperers will quietly rake in money for some…
MIFF 2018 brings out the Wildlife to celebrate
The MIFF opening night film is the closest us hoi polloi get to an A list party. At times this…
Commercials find novel way to argue against kids' TV
The commercial networks have a once in a lifetime chance to exit kids' TV. They are good at ideas under…
What's on screen: Breaker Upperers, Wrong Kind of Black, MIFF, Koreans...
MIFF, French comedy Dr Knock and Wrong Kind of Black head a lineup which also covers the Palace doc fest…
Peering into the Casting Cauldron of Australian Web Series
How does the casting process work in an arena where new and emerging performers are the norm and budgets are…
Daley Pearson - Australian stories are 'authored and from the gut.'
What do we mean by Australian stories? Queensland producer and comic creative Daley Pearson provides a beaut answer from Coolum…
The Resurrection of Phryne Fisher
Seven rescues the Fisher family and its trademark glama-detective approach to evil as Miss moves to Ms and 1930 skips…