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Canada's magic potion for culture
Canada provides much better support to their arts and screen sectors than Australia. What are we doing wrong?

ABC Fact Check Unit Strangled
The ABC went medieval today and sent the stranglers in to stifle the Fact Check Unit just when politicians are…

Storytelling, Directing, Producing, Docos, Lighting & More!
The end of financial year approaches, invest in new skills with AFTRS Open shortcourses: The Assistant Director (this weekend), MarketingVideoScriptwriting,…

ACS honours John Seale, cinematographer on Fury Road
The cinematographers run a key award which demonstrates the range of work which keeps people alive, in the year that…

Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures
As its moniker exclaims, this lively documentary is at its best when it's forcing viewers to explore its subject's artwork.

Green Room
Cultivating an unsettling atmosphere that never ceases, Green Room proves meatier than its horror-thriller formula might suggest.

Five ways to improve your acting
Learning to ignore external stimuli, extending your vocal range, and how to pull a script apart are all skills aspiring…

MIFF goes for sparkler-startler to open 2016 festival
Time may never be the same for A-list Melburnians after the premiere of the Death and Life of Otto Bloom.

Box Office 16 May 2016: Sundays are still entertaining
Australian films shunt slowly round the burnt out hulks of showier films in the trainyard of despair. Little choofs of…

National Ratings week beginning Sunday 15 May 2016 - the full set
A million for the Queen on Seven.