Surveillance and Film: bringing ASIO to your home

Ordinary folk can now take hours of ASIO footage home and run through it frame by frame. Ah, the shame…

Brief: our central European festival set to open

We accidentally adopted the Czech and Slovak Film Festival and have our fingers crossed that it gets a decent audience.

MIFF 2014: Paper Planes

Away from the mainstream strut, Robert Connolly had the most unusual premiere of his inventive career with Paper Planes.

Brief: SPA's ones to watch for 2014

SPA's One To Watch program is way of advancing careers and creating attention for emerging creatives on that side of…

Ratings: Thursday, 14th August 2014

Ten and the ABC neck and neck while Nine still wins handily and Seven inches up.

Piracy: new moves, as the audience speaks

A flurry of piracy news adds some new research, sees some justice delivered, and raises some older questions.

Ratings: Wednesday, 13th August 2014

A bunch of new shows made locally arrive on the ABC and Ten, to mixed results.

Web Series: international co-pro meets branded entertainment meets dreams of empire

Screen legend Lauren Bacall dies aged 89

The Hollywood actress died of a stroke Tuesday morning US time at her home in New York’s Upper West Side.

Toronto: relief at latest announcements

Could we have been stuck with but a single film screening at Toronto in 2014? Not so, to the relief…