Australia

Adelaide Film Fest Announces pop-up to premiere Top End Wedding and Animals
A new one-off party event in April solves the problem of not having another festival to premiere latest investment fund…

Big Screen Highlights: Green Book, Stan & Ollie, King of Thieves and festivals
QAGOMA, ACMI, Palace hook the cinema tragics while Undermined defends The Kimberley.

Applications Open to Cook 2020: Our Right of Reply drama collection
Screen Australia's Indigenous Dept and New Zealand Film Commission call for submissions to short film anthology collection.

Ita Buttrose to buttress battered ABC
The chair of the ABC may be a recurrent circus, but this is surely the first time a chair has…

Parrtjima is more than a light festival; it’s a celebration of Country
Some of the world’s oldest cultures merge with the latest digital technology to deliver a light festival in the heart…

AIDC - mystery Hawes winner revealed
Mild-mannered and multi-skilled, James Bradley is currently writing his speech for next Monday.

Monte Miller awards showcase new talent
Winners announced in premier Awards for future of Australian screenwriting.

TV Review: Stan's Bloom deserves a mass audience
A flagship series for Stan in the feverish battle for local market share, Bloom is a sophisticated and superbly acted…

ABC ME's New Live Action Kids Show ITCH begins filming in WA
The 10-part series from Komixx and ABC, adapted from Simon Mayo's best-selling teen novel, is currently shooting in Albany, WA.

Screen Australia and Google Australia announce recipients of Skip Ahead Youtube program
Funding of $500K announced for five online creative teams to ‘skip ahead’ their YouTube careers.