Australia
Bright spots emerge in changing cinema landscape
The number of cinemas is shrinking in the face of so many alternatives but there are rare movie houses putting…
Ratings: the Queen's birthday weekend, from Thursday to Monday
The big drama is Old School, which the ABC is running on both Friday and Saturday night.
The Kettering Incident: attachments available
Expressions of Interest (EOI) for Attachment places are now OPEN for the television series The Kettering Incident.
SPA: Ones to Watch - one week to go
Ones To Watch is a mentor program for early-career producers from around Australia who create content for big and small…
Sydney Film Festival plots a Winter's Sleep in Timbuktu
Behind the SFF cluster of five extra films from the Cannes Film Festival was a set of deals made with…
Something Must Break
As tender as the film may be in its consideration of the transgressive, it is also far from subtle.
Calvary
Calvary is a musing and moving meditation on faith, served up with dark comedy and deft commentary.
Alice & The Giant Emptiness: wins in Hollywood
Alice & The Giant Emptiness has received Silver at the recent Golden Trailer Awards in Hollywood.
National Film Festival: starting one from scratch
Cerise Howard explains how and why she is developing the Czech and Slovak Film Festival of Australia as a labour…
Screen Australia: last pre-budget tranche for doco production
Thirteen docs get $3.8m, all for television projects, with a useful group of one-offs.