Our ‘Location, location, location’ series canvasses leading location managers from across the country to find out their favourite places to shoot. South Australia's Maria Humphreys recently worked on docudrama 'Speedway', which saw Adelaide turned into 1970s Indiana.
With the writers strike in the US now entering its third week, writer and script producer Blake Ayshford reflects on the parallel and different issues facing writers working in Australia, where he argues our system means small rooms, short weeks for plotting and narrow career paths for newer writers are already the norm.
With Australia’s notoriously strict defamation laws undergoing a shake up in the past couple of
years and dramatic retellings of recent history becoming increasingly popular, has the state of play
for creatives wanting to base projects on real events and people changed? IF weighs up the views of producers and legal experts to find out.
As the US writers' strike stretches into a third week, the Australian Writers Guild is urging local writers to show caution and keep the lines of communication open about any opportunities where there is ambiguity or concern.
As AFTRS turns 50, CEO Nell Greenwood reflects on the school’s beginnings and looks towards its future.
First Nations media executive Dot West, late writer/director Shirley Barrett, and showrunner, writer, and director Tony Ayres have received honorary degrees from the Australian Film Television and Radio School.
SBS has unveiled the participating companies for this year's Emerging Writers' Incubator while opening applications for the nationwide initiative.
Our 'Location, location, location' series canvasses leading location managers from across the country to find out their favourite places to shoot. First up is Mary Barltrop, based across NSW and Queensland, whose recent credits include 'Extraction' 1 and 2, 'Poker Face', 'Blaze' and 'The Artful Dodger'.