In a single, extraordinary day more than $2 million in donations was pledged to seven Australian feature-length documentaries on Wednesday.
Illustrating the global appetite for on-demand cinema, Demand Film is growing fast in Australia and internationally, currently offering tickets to 550 events in seven countries.
The Tasmanian Breath of Fresh Air (BOFA) Film Festival will feature 15 feature films including two drive-in screenings, 20 documentaries and 35 shorts as well as four one-day action master classes and two half day actions sessions.
The Australian screen industry should set up a scheme to share information on local films' global revenues modelled on the Sundance Transparency Project.
Cinema on-demand operator Demand Film aims to raise a seven-figure sum via an equity crowdfunding platform to accelerate its global roll-out and ramp up the volume of releases.
Thanks to the kindness of strangers, Richard Todd’s feature documentary which investigates the impact of the coal seam gas industry on residents' health and food and water resources will get a long and wide exposure around Australia.
Frackman is an observational documentary following ordinary Queenslanders caught up in a modern day multinational 'gas rush' to secure and exploit coal seam gas.
Frackman the Movie is headed to cinemas across Western Australia for a special rural roadshow kicking off in Margaret River this Saturday 16 May and wrapping in Broome on Monday 1 June, following sell-out screenings in NSW, Victoria and Queensland.