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TV Shooter Producer, Intro to Screenwriting, Avid 101, Intro to Directing & More @ AFTRS Open
August highlights: PRESENTATION SKILLS on Friday, INTRO TO SCREENWRITING this weekend, TV SHOOTER PRODUCER mid-month, SHORT FILM BOOT CAMP, plus…

Networks flinging pies in Federal Court over twinned cooking show
There's nothing like a good legal stoush to get the suits in a slow motion frenzy, and Nine has made…

Documentary Ethics: a window into extremity
OzDocs explores documentary ethics and puts the lot on Youtube, creating a kind of documentary in itself.

No Minister: An artist's encounter with Senator Brandis
Behind cocktails and canapes there was a fiery exchange at the Helpmann Awards this week.

Trainwreck
Comedian Amy Schumer's first big screen starring role is big on humour, and on rom-com formula.

Books at MIFF: how The Dressmaker was adapted into a film starring Kate Winslet
The film of Rosalie Ham’s 2000 novel The Dressmaker will gain greater recognition for the author. EPA/TAL COHEN The Books at MIFF event…

National Ratings week beginning Sunday 2 August 2015 - the full set
Nine by 12% as GEM comes through with the Ashes to the sound of national weeping.

MIFF 2015: 370 worlds cast loose on darkened city
The Melbourne International Film Festival launches immediately into deep stuff and defiant purity. Paul Cox takes the screen.

Festivals: Grace under pressure from her dressmaker in escape from Iran to confront Ibsen's ghost
Toronto, Venice.. Australian films hit the wide, open road.

My Love, Don't Cross That River
Both a personal portrait and a picture of marriage in microcosm, this is a tale about the complexity of love…