TODAY is your last chance to have your say towards IF's Rising Talent list in 2024! Tell us who you think is up-and-coming and why. Here is the last instalment in our interview series with those we featured in 2023.
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Genevieve Grieves, co-creator of First Nations-led production company GARUWA, is the Natalie Miller Fellowship recipient for 2023.
Don't forget to send your recommendations for our Rising Talent list 2024! In the meantime, enjoy the fourth instalment in our interview series with those who were on the list in 2023.
It can be argued that now more than ever, when customers opt to watch a film out of home, they’re wanting more than a movie, but an ‘experience’. In response, the country's major exhibitors are looking to bump up premium offerings. IF takes a look.
Umbrella Entertainment will release Luke Sparke's 'Scurry' in Australia and New Zealand next year, with the Gold Coast-shot horror now in post-production.
With the official co-production treaty between Australia and India in the process of being finalised, the Asia Pacific Screen Forum is putting a spotlight on collaboration between the two countries. IF speaks to filmmaker and Australia India Film Council chair Anupam Sharma about the opportunities the agreement might bring.
The amount spent on scripted content in Australia in the last financial year - $2.34 billion across 213 titles - is only a smidgen down on the prior year's record high of $2.43 billion. Yet whereas 2021/22's result was driven by unseen levels of expenditure on local drama, 2022/23 was fuelled by an all-time high in foreign spend.
As the old adage goes, knowledge is power. In the post-pandemic landscape, data has never been more vital for both distributors and exhibitors to understand audience behaviour, informing how to best position films to the market and both maximise box office and the bottom line. We talk to representatives from across Google and Vista Group.