Australia
Screen Music Awards 2013: let their song be sung
As always the musicians delivered one of the niftiest awards nights on the calendar, but with an unusual interruption. Antony…
Ender’s Game
A striving but stilted tale of kids versus kids is the latest from X-Men Origins: Wolverine director Gavin Hood.
Winning Tropfest film ‘homophobic and transphobic’
The winning film at this year’s Tropfest short film festival has been widely criticised.
Sundance: Two Australian productions for key showcase
The Sundance Festival will unrol 52 Tuesdays and Babadook as part of a lineup which is said to generally skew…
Dennis O'Rourke: Aliquando et insanire iucundum Connollius
You have to hand it to the documentary community - they know how to turn grief into a story. Exhibit…
Feature Documentary: squaring for a new funding opportunity
The Shark island Institute and the Documentary Australia Foundation has picked up on an international funding system that pumped $11.5m…
Chinese Cinema: its all in the numbers
Compared to 1.6b people plus an uncounted number of travellers, the growth figures for Chinese cinema are still modest. But…
AIFF: new film fund to make Indian-centric films in Australia
Anupam Sharma, the proprietor of production and production services company Films & Casting TEMPLE, has combined with a group of…
SAFC Board: Liz Watts replaces Bridget Ikin
In keeping with the growing trend to search for State agency board members across Australia, Porchlight veteran Liz Watts will…
Dungog: new twist to Australia's favourite festival soapie
Regional film festivals are sprouting from the verdant local ooze around Australia, but none has had quite such a complicated…