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Garth Davis - from Lion to the Lion of Judah
Garth Davis goes from an orphan story solved with Google to the painterly anthropology of Mary Magdalene, all in search…

How to make an award-winning podcast: Tips from the 'Trace' team
From getting the script right to tone and presenting style, the team behind hit crime podcast Trace explain how their…

Modern science and the murder of sleep
Creative life may run on excitement tempered by endurance and a passion for detail, but it all depends on a…

What's On - Arenamedia explodes, SPA ones to watch, Jacoby Walkley scholarship
Mary Magdalene and Peter Rabbit approach, while SPA does learnings and Arenamedia grows like topsy with some ace staff.

The key to online is algorithmic, crocodilian and surprisingly laid back
AIDC 2018 took delegates down the rabbit hole of digital and social platforms, to reveal the scale and quality of…

Video and print journalists combine to cut through storms of digital garbage
Major newspapers are recruiting documentary makers aka video journalists to make short-form pieces that add the punch of screen storytelling…

AFTRS Producer Offset, Docos, Screenwriting & Export Markets
AFTRS still has a few spots in this month’s short courses including: Producer Offset: Don’t forget the QAPE, Intro to…

Chris Owen - requiem for a filmmaker between worlds
Technically Australian, documentary filmmaker and visual anthropologist Chris Owen's story transcends borders and cultures. His colleague Les McLaren pays tribute.

Nigel Dick - death of a civilised supremo
Vale: Nigel Alexander Dick AM PhD, March 15, 1928 – March 8, 2018.

Box Office 12 March 2018 - swap colours, keep stereotypes, save genre
Black Panther dominates, the Shape of Water gains from the Oscars but the others not so much. And The Square…