Past Programs
Film - 2008
Social viewing and social change
20/11/2008
American film producer and online entrepreneur Chris Adams was a keynote speaker at this year's SPAA conference (SPAA being the Screen Producers Association of Australia). Mr Adams likes to make money, but he also likes to make films with the potential to initiate social change. He is also an online developer with a new 'social viewng' project underway.
Mankind is no Island
09/10/2008
Jason Van Genderen is the director of a very short film called 'Mankind is no Island'. Shot on a mobile phone - and a shoe-string budget - the movie has just won both the 'People's Choice' and 'Best Film' category at the New York Tropfest short film festival.
The process is the product
18/09/2008
Imagine being the producer of a film project with no discernible end point and no limit to the number of co-producers involved. Welcome to the world of crowd-sourced 'remixable' films.
Lord of the Flicks
21/08/2008
The current head of the New Zealand Film Commission, Dr Ruth Harley, has just been appointed to head-up the Australian film industry's new uber-agency 'Screen Australia'. She tells us about her background and the direction she intends to take in her new role.
Acting up a storm
03/04/2008
The giant US media industry is facing another crisis. Already damaged by economic downturn and the long-running writers' strike, now the industry's acting fraternity has declared war -- on itself!
