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Richard Moore - a personal view on the state of film festivals in Brisbane
Richard Moore, former Head of Screen Culture at Screen Queensland, explores the collapse of a broad-based international film festival in…

See-Saw haunted by monkey from the sixteenth century
The latest and maybe the best reinvention of the old Chinese Monkey legend from The Journey to the West comes…

What's On - local indies and comedies about making films.
Look carefully and you will find some powerful Australian indy films staking out a strictly limited release. And others that…

Ratings week of April 16 2017 - the whole batch
SBS and the ABC confront each other to control the non-cookery mid to late evening. Its serious doc v prime…

Box Office 17 April 2017 - Easter weekend
The exhibition business chock full of puzzles. Like, why is this film not doing well in the box office? Image:…

Arts professions excluded from skilled visa list
Arts organisations will face limitations on the use of international talent under changes to visa laws.

Cannes Film Festival 2017 - Top of the Lake and a regulatory fight
Top of the Lake: China Girl blasts off in a tribute for a favoured heroine at the Cannes Film Festival,…

What's On - John Clarke Tribute + FFS festival + Kurosawa
While Easter is dominated by tentpoles and the ratings have stopped on TV, SBS movies and iView can still get…

Frantz
French filmmaker François Ozon delves into post-war turmoil in a delicate, probing and painterly drama.

ADG stats reveal ten truths about gender in the Australian screen sector
Counting men and women in recent Directors' Guild nomination list is a pretty crude way of making a point -…