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Box Office 6 Feb 2017 - Lion laps up the spoils
Lion has taken at least $62m around the world and is about to beat La La Land in Australia.
Performers facing reducing conditions
MEAA is heading for conflict with the Screen Producers Association (SPA) over a key award, while a can of worms…
A Golden Koala brings films by emerging Chinese directors to Australia
Far from the cold touch of official approval, nine diverse Chinese films by emerging directors slip into a campus-based festival…
AIDC 2017 - program released for desperate times
The 2017 AIDC conference will feature international guests and challenging projects while the very concept of truth is under attack.
Robert Thirkill Factual Masterclass, Moving Camera + MORE!
Don’t miss the unique opportunity to hear BAFTA Award-winning UK director/producer Robert Thirkell (Troubleshooting, Jamie's School Dinners) giving his C.O.N.F.L.I.C.T…
Sundance 2017 roundup - two Australian films grab critics by the throat
Kitty Green scores a triumph for Casting JonBenet, the streaming services go into a feeding frenzy, and Red Dog gets…
Screen NSW has disappeared: why it matters
Pioneering change maker Screen NSW has been dissolved into Create NSW to be and subsumed under the new minister. Is…
Arts transcend transgender monsters
Literature and film have shifted from demonising transgender people to attempts to understand them and represent them positively.
Box Office - 30 Jan 2017 as Lion hits $45m+ around the world
The Lion results are just peachy as the picture turns into the little bulldozer that can.
Split
M. Night Shyamalan plunges happily into spatially constrained, plot twist-restrained, psychological-thriller territory.