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Participant Media: Jeff Skoll goes out to save the world, with movies
The movie trade is not just a strange, seething morass of greed and idealism, it can also prove that greed…
Playpen: spycam reveals truth about producing
Here is secret footage of a producer desperately lining up all the elements to finance a film. Can you pick…

Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
The second installment in this myth-mining coming-of-age franchise is formulaic but still gently enjoyable.

Fear and Desire
Stanley Kubrick was not fond of his feature film debut. Now it’s available on DVD, it’s easy to see why.
OPEN CHANNEL ANNOUNCES 2013 SHORT & SHARP PITCHING COMPETITION; WARRNAMBOOL & BALLARAT – CALL FOR EN
THE PITCH IS BACK! Entries for the 2013 SHORT & SHARP PITCHING COMPETITION in Warrnambool and Ballarat are now open.…
Harvey Weinstein: the Canberra prowl
The Canberra International Film Festival has sent crack ASIO trained ornithologists to find the most outlandishly interesting dealmakers in the…
Screenworks Immersive Writing Workshop: how to write killer stories
Screenworks is bringing back Mike Jones for another immersive writing workshop in October. He is an Australian based, but international…
FTI: Fremantle to Help Host World’s Biggest Film Festival
Brainchild of Fremantle expat Nicholas Mason, the Manhattan Short Film Festival scours the globe to find the best short films…
BRIEF: Endemol sells Bananas online
Endemol Worldwide Distribution has licensed Bananas in Pyjamas to online video platform, Kidobi, in the U.S. The deal was negotiated…
SPAA Conference: market component revamped, breaking down the walls, returning to a sense of fun
With the SPAA Conference now rebadged as ‘Screen Forever’, the familiar SPAAmart has also morphed into the Screen Forever International…