Avatar Director Opens 3D Shop In Melbourne

Avatar Director Opens 3D Shop In Melbourne

Film director James Cameron has opened an office in Melbourne that will specialise in equipment for 3D films and broadcasting. The office will provide 3D cameras for film and television projects and live sports broadcasting. Mr Cameron, who directed the blockbusters...
True Blue Thriller A Hit At Sundance Festival

True Blue Thriller A Hit At Sundance Festival

THE Australian film Wish You Were Here, from the team behind the critically acclaimed Animal Kingdom, has impressed audiences at its world premiere in the US, where it has opened this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The much awaited film – a dark, edgy...
YouTube Launches Film Festival

YouTube Launches Film Festival

YouTube is launching a film festival that will ultimately send 10 finalists to the Venice Film Festival. The Google Inc-owned video site announced on Thursday that Your Film Festival will take submissions of up to 15 minutes between February 2 and March 31. Fifty...
Steal This Film 2

Steal This Film 2

These are strange times indeed. While they continue to command so much attention in the mainstream media, the ‘battles’ between old and new modes of distribution, between the pirate and the institution of copyright, seem to many of us already lost and won....
Mad Max 4

Mad Max 4

The new Mad Max film will no longer be shooting in the outback city of Broken Hill. Director George Miller has said that the landscape is too green for a Mad Max film. The film’s crew and equipment are currently preparing to move to an overseas location most...