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SPA names 12 'Ones to Watch' for 2024

Twelve early career Australian producers are the 'Ones to Watch' in SPA's 2024 initiative.

Actors' mental health is profoundly affected by unreasonable casting practices.
Features

Disturbing trend damaging actors’ mental health

Forced to wait up to four months to hear the outcome of an audition, actors' mental health is regularly suffering.

Book cover of The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron, photographed against a background of an oil painting with a calligraphy pen resting on top.
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The Artist’s Way – an invitation to change your life

Julia Cameron's creativity manual is still a global bestseller, three decades after it was first published. Come on the journey…

rejection. image is of a woman with dark hair and her face covered by her hands as she deals with creative rejection.
Features

9 ways to help you deal with creative rejection

Hearing "no" is never easy but recovering from rejection is a necessary part of the artist’s life. Here are some…

AFTRS Master of Art Screen: Business 2018 graduate and current Head of Commissions NITV, Marissa McDowell. Image: Courtesy SBS.
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AFTRS’ Master of Arts Screen: Business boasts a cohort of like-minded professionals who are on the same track to innovate,…

Filmmaking student Felix Wilkins (far right) and two friends sit on a couch and can be seen through a video camera screen in the foreground.
Education & Student News

Why I’m studying… Diploma of Screen and Media

Aspiring filmmaker Felix Wilkins chose to study close to home at Collarts in Melbourne. He says meeting fellow students is…

Career Advice

We need to talk about money in the arts

Having open conversations about what we earn and how we manage money is the only way to a richer arts…

Career Advice

Mental health for creative people: five tips to thrive

Aimee Davies, founder of The Hey Mate Project, understands the unique mental health challenges for those in the arts and…

Opinions & Analysis

Film camera departments – what happens when you're not part of the in-group?

Latest industry research reveals inequitable power dynamics behind the camera on Australian film sets are pernicious and persistent.

Head and shoulders shot of a young woman of Asian appearance looking at the camera.
Career Advice

Why I studied … Bachelor of Arts Screen: Production

Emerging screen producer Faraz Anarwala talks about studying at AFTRS and specialising in Production Design, Sound and Cinematography.

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