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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…
Joel Edgerton: feature debut revealed in Canada, to be US Weirdo
Fresh off his triumph at TIFF, the star-writer of Felony is moving onto American shores to make his next feature,…
Crowd Funding: government reviewing equity investment model
The Australian Government is reviewing crowd funding, but the focus is equity investment, and no change is expected for short…
Festival des Antipodes 2013: the world's only real festival of antipodean films
As always, the Festival des Antipodes allows an open but idiosyncratic take on Australian, New Zealand and now Indonesian films.…
Toronto 2013: going around the block and beyond the edge - the good oil on whole fest from true insi
László Kriston, professional festival devotee, interviews Jane Scboettle, festival powerhouse. With formal responsibility for our region, she discusses the fate…
Toronto: 2013: Felony feels the benefits of Beneroya
That one of Hollywood’s leading venture capitalists was funding almost half of a mainstream Aussie movie’s budget is concrete proof…
Brandis and Turnbull: key figures for sector in new government
Senator George Brandis returns to the Arts portfolio, while Malcolm Turnbull is of course the Minister for Communications. But who…
Toronto 2013: what won what for who
Steve McQueen is breaking towards the mainstream and Oscar contention with 12 Years a Slave. In a brutally competitive field,…
Sharmill Films: and the weird business of releasing theatre in cinemas
Natalie Miller's Sharmill Films has been releasing the filmed versions of Metropolitan Opera and National Theatre productions for four years,…
TIFF 2013: two more Australian films to go round the block at Canadian fest
Around the Block and The Canopy join The Railway Man, Felony, Mystery Road and Tracks at North America's prime festival.…
