Television
AFI/AACTA: brings out the heavy mob for the board
In its time of public distress, the AFI/AACTA has appointed four new board members after recent elections. They come from…
Calling young doco filmmakers - get ready to fire your Opening Shot!
Are you a young and talented doco director or producer, DOP, editor, AP, writer, field director or researcher? ABC2 wants…
Dungog Film Festival: town remains bucolic
With the demise of the Cockatoo Island Film Festival, Dungog is also left sans festival and in disarray. Not so…
Hot Docs: Stolen director's new film to present in forum
Violeta Ayala and Dan Fallshaw's new film The Bolivian Case is the only sort-of-Australian documentary to be selected to present…
What’s in a Name?
Five friends face a chaotic night of heated arguments and smashed plates in this French comedy about a dinner party…
Cockatoo Island Film Festival: looking at the numbers behind the collapse
How could a festival run by the experienced, energetic pair of Alannah Zitserman and Stavros Kazantzidis in a fabulous dockyard…
Iran plans lawsuit over ‘Argo’
Iran has revealed plans to sue Hollywood over the depiction of Iran in several of its films, including the recent…
First female Palestinian filmmaker to open Birds Eye View film festival
Palestinian filmmaker Annemarie Jacir has become the first Palestinian woman whose film will open the Birds Eye View film festival.
Franco steps in to rescue MQFF
James Franco and Director Travis Mathews have gifted their latest film Interior. Leather Bar to the Melbourne Queer Film Festival.
Performance
Christopher Walken and Catherine Keener star in this measured and moving drama about a famous string quartet facing an uncertain…