TV/Film

7th Son!

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I'm now a commuter and becoming an avid podcast listener while traveling to and from work. My journey has been particularly quick the last few weeks as I've become totally addicted to JC Hutchins' 7th Son. Have even found myself having 'driveway moments' sitting in the car waiting to hear the end of an episode [...]

Viral Crocodiles

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New Australian feature film Black Water is getting good critical acclaim in Europe and has just been released in Australia. Made by Australian filmmakers Andrew Traucki and David Nerlich it has reportedly already made its money back, a rarity for any Australian film. This is one of the viral videos being used to promote the [...]

Learn filmmaking from Baz

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It's on the grapevine, Baz Lurhrman's Set to Screen podcasts have hit the iTunes store offering young filmmakers an insight into the process behind the making of new feature film Australia. Critic Lynden Barber mentions it in his blog Eyes Wired Open and credits Luhrmann and Fox for a genuine effort to reach out to [...]

An unexpected delight

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It's a rare occurrence for a kid's film to really touch you emotionally - especially with the assault of CG animated features which just keep coming and kids seem to lap up like ice cream. I'm thinking of The Bee Movie, Valiant, Madagascar - even Pixar's offerings are getting stale and saccharine. The kid's 'effects' [...]

Changes in the Australian digital film landscape

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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 [...]

Duck for cover: “You Tube meets The Apprentice”

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Was just looking at popular vlogs on You Tube and came across Charles Trippy. He's kind of a bad ZeFrank immitation only younger, better looking and much less acidic. Anyway, Charles has just been selected as a contestant on 'The Next Internet Millionaire' which is a reality TV concept on the web. Might be worth [...]