In a wrap up of its 10th anniversary celebrations on October 18, Cinema des Antipodes presented awards for the six films in competition, with Australian director Nadia Tass (Malcolm, The Big Steal) heading its competition jury.
This New Zealand dramatic comedy, directed by Paul Murphy, begins its Aussie run July 29
APN announced it intends to sell its Australian Regional Media arm after the company reported a seven percent slide in profit. The regional media division consists of twelve daily newspapers, sixty community and non-weekly publications and thirty regional
"The announcement by ABC management yesterday afternoon of fourteen positions to be cut from the Perth, Brisbane, Sydney, and Melbourne newsrooms has been made more painful by yet another deplorable use of targeted redundancies", the MEAA said in a statem
Publishing and media doyenne Ita Buttrose has been confirmed as the new chair of the ABC.
Director Paul Murphy's 'Lowdown Dirty Criminals', a comedy crime caper about two naïve young men searching for a better life, is shooting in Wellington.
The Make it Australian campaign is heading back to Canberra for the first time since the federal election, restating its case for local content requirements to be placed on digital platforms such as Netflix and Amazon Prime.
The ABC is being pressured by the Federal Government to ask staff to forgo for six months a 2 per cent pay rise which was due to come into effect in October.