Wednesday 17 October, 2007
It was a very entertaining way to start the second day of the ADG Conference, with a conversation between Matthew Saville and Tony (Home Song Stories) Ayres, who said, “let’s make this as informal as possible,” inviting the audience to “sing out” if they had any questions. Tina Kaufman kept schtumm.

Wednesday 17 October, 2007
Crikey's Margaret Simons falls on the first election video from The Age with a certain fastidious horror. Much as we celebrate our tree print colleagues, we too have noticed that their multimedia moments are worse than watching a rodent with a gammy leg on YouTube.

Wednesday 17 October, 2007
Resident Evil ousts Evan Almighty.

News Feature by: Tina Kaufman
Wednesday 17 October, 2007
As filmmakers 'cross over' from the sunlit lands of reality to the dark netherworld of documentary ruled by the bleak Gods of Commissioning, they are spared the sight of the bureaucrats weaving the schemes that rule their Fate. Tina Kaufman is a quizzical observer (with a different laboured metaphor).

Wednesday 17 October, 2007
The ABC has joined the joyful game of “co-opta rebel” by challenging Australia’s political satirists to post on Auntie’s own YouTube channel.

News Feature by: Andrew Einspruch
Wednesday 17 October, 2007
If you’re a filmmaker, you make the thing, and you want people to see it. However, the process of finding your audience, whether you have a no-budget indie feature or a more mainstream, distributor-released film, is not necessarily straightforward. Andrew Einspruch contemplates the different sorts of walk.

Wednesday 17 October, 2007
As school holidays become nothing but a memory, Tuesday night's ratings remain eye-glazingly the same. The same this week as they were last week, as they were the week before that...

News Feature by: Keith Barclay
Wednesday 17 October, 2007
Leonardo DiCaprio didn't come. To New Zealand. To DocNZ. Last month. As non-events go, it's very frustrating for DocNZ Summit & Film Festival organisers Eva Bigio, Dan Shanan and Alex Lee, because he wanted to come. Keith Barclay lays out the elements of a farce.

Wednesday 17 October, 2007
What happens when First World distributors are told about the realities of distribution in the Third World?

News Feature by: David Tiley
Monday 15 October, 2007
Are the critics really savaging Cate Blanchett and 'Elizabeth: The Golden Age'? Does it matter?

News Feature by: Andrew Einspruch
Monday 15 October, 2007
Actors Loving and Hating Directors got a real hot go from a top, top panel of actors who could scare most directors into a jelly. But they don't, because they are kind and wonderful people, as Andrew Einspruch reports, with just the tiniest touch of fear.

News Feature by: Tina Kaufman
Monday 15 October, 2007
Tina Kaufman, an expert on industry events for a long time, casts an approving eye over Something. Completely. New. The ADG inaugural awards night, at which an astonished Sydney discovered the true swoonette-ness of Julia Zemiro.

News Feature by: Martha Ansara
Monday 15 October, 2007
Doco establishment, look out! EDNA (the Emerging Doco-makers Network of Australia) is on the move. On October 11th, EDNA’s first open meeting was held at the Australian Film Commission’s Sydney theatrette, under the auspices of Ozdox, The Australian Documentary Forum. Martha Ansara reports.

Monday 15 October, 2007
Seven is in full skite mode over 2.4 million people watching the final episode of 'Kath and Kim'. Everyone in Australia watched it, except all those executives at the ABC who were forced to conclude they couldn't afford it. Here's the full list of the 20 most popular shows for 2007.

News Feature by: Christopher Johnson
Monday 15 October, 2007
Atlab and Efilm have a party to celebrate many, many wonderful new post-production toys. Who better to send than Christopher Johnson, Sydney's brainiest party animal?

News Feature by: Andrew Einspruch
Monday 15 October, 2007
Andrew Einspruch contemplates DGA headline act Brad Silberling as he used the wonderful medium of excited electrons to discuss directing, fear and new distribution models.

News Feature by: David Tiley
Monday 15 October, 2007
It could be awed silence time in the boardrooms of Nine and Foxtel as they realise just how money they have paid to dominate ratings for two separate fifteen day blocks.

Monday 15 October, 2007
Who is lying on the floor gasping with delight knowing they won an award at the absolutely historic first time inaugural Australian Directors' Guild Awards?

News Feature by: Alex Prior
Friday 12 October, 2007
Queensland Arts Minister Rod Welford will be investigated over whether he misled Parliament when he denied claims of bullying by a staff member at the Pacific Film and Television Commission. Following a report by Screen Hub that the claimant was awarded compensation by WorkCover, the Speaker Mike Reynolds told Parliament that he would refer the matter to the ethics and parliamentary privileges committee.

News Feature by: Alex Prior
Thursday 20 September, 2007
General Manager Alaric McAusland explains the deal behind Atlab bringing EFilm (a subsidiary of the US Deluxe Laboratories) to Australia – all rumours aside, it’s an exclusive license covering Australia, New Zealand and Asia.