Festivals
NYWF 2020 brings the best of digital programming
National Young Writers Festival is going online from 1-4 October, and their program delves deep into the possibilities that digital…
Screen News in Brief: Production continues, festivals ramp up, Facebook plays hard
Maintaining bubbles of safety is key to the fragile ecology. Meanwhile, proposed legislation battling online giants threatens press diversity and…
NZ Games Festival serves up 'The Pavs' Awards for 2020
The 2020 New Zealand Games Festival might have been postponed, but that didn’t stop them running a gorgeous Awards ceremony…
Adelaide Film Festival goes physical for October
Journalist Phill Liggett, the Bangarra Dance Company and explorations of the violence of white settlement will anchor the 2020 edition…
Screen News in Brief: Brisbane Film Festival goes back to the cinemas
BIFF unveils highlights, MIFF gets ready to go, Screen Australia enterprise recipients and new global initiative for female and non…
Sydney Film Festival discovers the virtues of virtual though real life is better
It worked, says the Sydney Film Festival of its COVID-19 Defiance Edition, and reveals the numbers to prove it.
Stay spry! Stay sane! Three more film festivals to stream
More couch streaming with an East Asia film fest from Italy, as Perth goes profound and perverse, and docs keep…
St Kilda Film Festival reveals best of 2020's 100 Australian films
Some films just keep pushing through even though the selection of finalists for each festival may be very different. As…
What can the world's oldest games festival teach the arts about survival?
Freeplay independent games festival has survived for over sixteen years. The past and present directors share the lessons they have…
Sydney Film Festival 2020 finds four compelling winners
Free diving, performative eating, vagina power and the horrors of internet stardom—all the winners at the virtual edition of the…