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DOCO & FACTUAL TV: INTRO TO DOCUMENTARY, INTERVIEWING SKILLS FOR FACTUAL TV, WRITING FOR FACTUAL T
Hot courses this weekend: INTRODUCTION TO SCREENWRITING with Steve Vidler and AVID FOR PRODUCERS. Upcoming documentary and factual TV courses…
Brief: The Real Housewives of Melbourne v Wentworth
Why bother with all that writing down stuff? Wentworth only just beat The Real Housewives of Melbourne, as the locals…
Brief: Screen Australia rewards a certain kind of success in Enterprise program
The recipients of the second round of the Feature Enterprise program are similar in a very obvious way...
Populaire
The fantasy of Populaire outweighs any attempts at feminist statements, though its comic sensibilities remain apparent.
AIDC: silencing the devil's advocate
Would we go to the Australian international Documentary Conference if we weren't hoovering up vast amounts of copy for ScreenHub?…
Completion Guarantor: nude-nutted in a good cause
Anni Browning, veteran guarantor at Film Finances, is taking a literal rather than a financial haircut to raise money for…
Wendy Hughes: dead at 61
Wendy Hughes has died of cancer. She was a classy, classy person and a performer, who grew and aged with…
Ratings: 5-10th March 2014
With the Screenhub crew at the AIDC, we temporarily left the normal world. Here is a quick summary of the…
Playpen: Best Oscar Scene: yess!!!!
The one place on earth you cannot be bored with the Oscars on your screen.
The Finishers
Lifting the feature beyond its status as an exercise in empathy are the performances which inform the father-son struggle.