Australia
ASTRA Awards: back with a snappy title or two
The Australian Subscription Television and Radio Association (ASTRA) has announced the ASTRA Industry Excellence Awards finalists, which includes the snappiest…
BRIEF: Sharmill Films: acquires Sleepwalk With Me
Sharmill Films has acquired the Australian rights to Mike Birbiglia's Sleepwalk With Me. The comedy stars, is written and directed…
Kidscreen: an Ambience of Liberated Chocolate in rarefied company
Kidscreen, unlike most industry awards, gives just seven prizes in the creative talent category. Two of them went to The…
March of the Moguls: surely not more of the same in the ratings game
Just as the old business model of commercial free-to-air television is near dead and buried the ratings game had radically…
Ratings: Sunday, 10/02/13
It is as if they never left! And indeed, they didn't really - they just weren't official since late November.…
Film Victoria: production announcements as 2013 gathers momentum
These announcements arrive late in the funding process. They are not dealbreakers for the filmmakers, but they make a huge…
The Elegant Gentleman’s Guide to Knife Fighting: starts production today
ABC TV and Jungleboys started production today on a television version of The Elegant Gentleman’s Guide to Knife Fighting.
Brief: reminder about Don Macalpine Film
Show Me the Magic, the biopic about honojured and treasured Australian cinematographer Don Don McAlpine, is running on Wednesday night…
Blak Night Cinema
This free City of Melbourne event returns to ACMI, exploring Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander arts and culture through a…
Elles
Polish filmmaker Malgorzata Szumowska is not subtle in her cinematic exploration of the parallels between domestic duties and sex work.