KISS bassist Gene Simmons will swap wanting to party every day for producing with Arclight Films chairman Gary Hamilton, as the pair launch new company Simmons/Hamilton Productions.
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With Australia’s notoriously strict defamation laws undergoing a shake up in the past couple of
years and dramatic retellings of recent history becoming increasingly popular, has the state of play
for creatives wanting to base projects on real events and people changed? IF weighs up the views of producers and legal experts to find out.
As AFTRS turns 50, CEO Nell Greenwood reflects on the school’s beginnings and looks towards its future.
Viral 2014 web series 'How to Talk Australians' is being adapted into a feature film, with production underway in Melbourne.
First Nations media executive Dot West, late writer/director Shirley Barrett, and showrunner, writer, and director Tony Ayres have received honorary degrees from the Australian Film Television and Radio School.
Long-time Roxy Theatre owner Bob Brainwood and recently departed Independent Cinemas Australia CEO Adrianne Pecotic were honoured at Thursday's ICA Conference Gala Dinner.
Our 'Location, location, location' series canvasses leading location managers from across the country to find out their favourite places to shoot. First up is Mary Barltrop, based across NSW and Queensland, whose recent credits include 'Extraction' 1 and 2, 'Poker Face', 'Blaze' and 'The Artful Dodger'.
Production companies can apply for up to $100,000 to develop three projects under Screen NSW's new slate development funding program.