A new partnership has just been announced which will shape the future of Australia's digital film industry in the coming years. Australia's leading production company - Kennedy Miller Mitchell - has announced it will partner with the Omnilab group to advance the future of digital cinema creation in Australia. George Miller made the following statement [...]
Just finished reading Richard Harris's essay in the Platform Papers series - 'Film in the Age of Digital Distribution: The Challenge for Australian Content'. You can find out more about this paper by clicking here. That was the advertisement, now for the critique. Don't get me wrong, it's timely for a paper like this to [...]
I was lucky enough to speak at a panel tonight with director George Miller about the future of film. George lamented the fact that good stories just aren't surfacing as much any more in cinema - either because studios are averting risk by financing sequels (rather than original content) or maybe because we have mined [...]
A few questions our film and TV industry are asking themselves at the moment: Why are Australian films not hitting the mark with the under 40's demographic? Should we be making films for our own market or aiming at international sales? Does distribution of films over the internet risk losing income through piracy? Surely asking [...]
Shilo McClean's eagerly awaited book 'Digital Storytelling: the narrative power of visual effects in film' is out at last. Published by MIT press this weighty volume is an informed and practical extension of Shilo's earlier work in the area. Her first book 'So what's this all about then?' is a rare and valuable guide for [...]
Seems like the whole Australian animation and film industries breathed a huge sigh of relief when Happy Feet opened in the US taking $40 million US in its opening weekend. And there was follow on box office success during Thankgiving meaning the film was on par with what Madagascar achieved this time last year (a [...]