Australia
David Hannay: crusade for coffee table book
David Hannay, knockabout producer and industry pioneer, will be honoured in a glossy book to be published as a labour…
SPAA: completes new leadership team
SPAA has raided Screen Australia's brains trust again, to reunite the team known affectionately as 'The Two Matthews'. Rachelle Gibson…
BRIEF: Nine: launches online news through Ninemsn
THE Nine Network today launched a live news service created to run online. #9StreamLIVE, will run weekly on Ninemsn, starting…
Sundance: sales and acquisitions as Two Mothers gets US distributor
Madman has picked up the Australian and New Zealand rights to Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s killer whale documentary Blackfish, about the history…
Phryne Fisher: international deals for series 2
ALL3MEDIA International has been busy signing international broadcasters to series two of Every Cloud Productions' Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (13…
BRIEF: Blackfella Films: Redfern Now gets second series
The ABC has commissioned a second, six hour series of Blackfella Films' Redfern Now. It is produced by ABC TV’s…
Tropfest Roughcut: Creatives Converge to talk
Tropfest today announced that high profile Australian actors Rebecca Gibney, Gyton Grantley and Magda Szubanski will join an exciting line…
Hannay: laughs off report of own death
David Hannay, raconteur, veteran and indomitable survivor of cancer, joined the ranks of luminaries such as Mark Twain and Evelyn…
Australian Films: International Performance 2012
For the first time in years, no Australian film was released internationally by a major distributor, but a number of…
Open Channel Filmmaker Initiatives bring members face to face with the creators of MythBusters, Anat
As Victoria’s home for emerging and early career screen practitioners for over 40 years, Open Channel filmmaker initiatives are focused…