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.
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.
Cinema on-demand platform Tugg Australia is growing month-by-month, delivering tidy sums to the producers of hot-button documentaries and incremental revenues for narrative features.
Farmer and activist Dayne Pratzky has called on Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk to see Frackman, the controversial documentary about coal seam gas mining in which he appears.
Dayne Pratsky, aka Frackman, has become a social sensation with more than 1 million people viewing the trailer for the documentary telling the story of his fight against the coal seam gas companies.
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.
In a single, extraordinary day more than $2 million in donations was pledged to seven Australian feature-length documentaries on Wednesday.