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Secrets and Spies: an interview with Pine Gap's Felicity Packard
The writer and producer on the ABC/Netflix's spy thriller talks about trust, working with Greg Haddrick, and imagining conflict inside…

Opening Scene: enter new writers from beyond the mainstream
The Wheeler Centre partners up with SAFC to bring fresh unpublished works to South Australian screen producers.

Review: First Man
As much a space movie as a psychological drama, this Neil Armstrong biopic combines the visceral and the thoughtful.

Humanising the screen industry with statistics and a plan
Raising children in the screen sector is hard - but there are useful initiatives that see the industry in a…

Box Office 15 October 2018: too much of a good thing in cinemas?
Ladies in Black is coming down to earth as a lot of entertaining films do okay but meh business.

Brisbane International Film Festival arrives with a storm and lands where it should
Battered by change, the Brisbane International Film Festival can now build for the future and give the city the festival…

What's On Your Screen: festivals, great schlock, while Ladies in Black charms
There is a pile of stuff on at the cinema for all possible tastes, including First Man and Bad Times…

Australia's Fearless Mermaid Swims On
A new online exhibition curated by the NFSA celebrates the life of Annette Kellerman: champion swimmer, silent movie star, aqua…

Adelaide Film Festival melts bones with sound, purely for fun
Will you like Hotel Mumbai? Adelaide Film Festival road tests it with the Australian premiere.

The Scribe - Graham Freudenberg, shaper of power, poet of ambition
Graham Freudenberg holds high the flag for decent public discourse as we hold our noses in political sludge.