While local films were quiet at the box office last year, Aussie TV drama boomed. Jackie Keast catches up with industry leaders to reflect on 2016 and canvass the challenges of the year ahead.
Set in Sydney in the summer of 1959, 'Ladies in Black' is the story of suburban schoolgirl Lisa, who takes a summer job at a large department store where she works alongside a group of saleswomen who open her eyes to a world beyond her sheltered existence
The message of Screen Australia CEO Graeme Mason’s keynote address to the Australian International Documentary Conference was simple: adapt or die.
Screen Australia has seen too many deals of late in which producers seem to have been “coerced into putting aside business realitiesâ€, says CEO Graeme Mason.
Australian TV drama expenditure has reached a record high of $376 million.
Screen Australia CEO Graeme Mason described the series as "bold, innovative, and compelling documentaries [that] will explore the place of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples in Australia in the months leading up to the proposed 2017 Referendum
Kicking off the Australian International Documentary Conference with a presentation entitled The Future is Now, Screen Australia CEO Graeme Mason flagged the urgency of understanding the current landscape, and foreshadowed - bravely, given the audience -
Four Australian works have been selected for the 2016 Berlinale.