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Australian films overseas in 2017 - not as bad as you think
Only one man keeps enough data to tell the real truth about overseas Australian releases each year. Antony I. Ginnane…

Box Office 15 Jan 2018 - Star Wars rools but art fights back
There's a lot more to this year's figures than the lightsaber menace, including a quick thought on gay films in…

Death, horror and huge mammals - Screen Australia wrestles with documentary innovation
Change is afoot in the Producer Documentary program at Screen Australia, and there could be some grinding of teeth.

Cinemania: Lisa Reihana
A powerful re-mapping of the history of colonial and First Peoples interaction eclipses Reihana's career.

Narrative Comedy, TV Writers Room, Producer Offset & More
Start the New Year with new skills. Grab the last spots in remaining Summer Intensives: Filmmaking Intensive, The Digital Producer,…

Incubating ideas needs more than a hip share office
Tired of big budget, big tech talk when it comes to innovation? Then start with old fashioned talking: it's proving…

Sundance not so joyful this year
Sundance runs the ultimate range of the Australian viewpoint, from a feminist Shakespeare to an Indigenous western.

New podcast challenges cultural whitewashing
The Culture Cycle is a new series that asks whether Australia’s arts and cultural sector looks like Australia.

Christmas, some favourite articles, and a course to change your future
The very last article for 2017, with some final goodies.

To those we lost in 2017, vale
We salute the lives and careers of the artists, performers and patrons who took their final curtain call in 2017.