It’s not every day that you get to sail down the Amazon River in a canoe to do location scouting with a Palme d’Or winning director who is guiding you on your short film. But that was the recent experience of Kate Vinen, one of 50 directors selected for PlayLab Films’ 10-day development lab in Peru with Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
For Playground Films owner and director David Barker, there are many industry opportunities to discuss the business of filmmaking - less so the art of filmmaking. To help redress this, Playground has launched Helm, a program of monthly film screenings 'for directors, by directors'.
When it comes to picking new projects, Pallavi Sharda finds community to be a greater motivator than career.
With six quite different films earning more than $1 million at the box office last weekend, there are promising signs that audiences of all types are making their way back to cinemas.
When Melbourne creative Jessica Hutchinson travels to Seoul Webfest next month to represent the nominated web series 'Strings Attached', it will mark the first time she's been face-to-face with her fellow collaborators.
Laura Gordon, Ian Bliss and Fayssal Bazzi will join 'The Suicide Squad' star David Dastmalchian in Colin and Cameron Cairnes' latest horror, 'Late Night with the Devil', now shooting at Docklands Studios Melbourne.
Arts Minister Tony Burke hopes to answer the question of how best to regulate streaming services before the end of this year as he ramps up consultation on the government's National Cultural Policy.
Actor, writer, producer, and director Richard Roxburgh will chair the jury for this year's CinefestOZ, which this year includes 270 film screenings and events.