"Wage growth in the quarter was quickest among the arts and recreation services and media sectors.." said the Oz. Don`t you feel richer already? Maybe it means another dollar a week for the nation`s cinema staff, and it distorted the whole picture..
Rory Callaghan, who has been with Southern Star since 2006 after a career at Nine, has announced his resignation from the leadership he assumed in 2009. His replacement has now been unveiled - Janeen Faithful.
Tina Kaufman anticipates a day of secret joys at a festival which will choof its way through a primal connection - steam and cinema. The life and career of JP McGowan, Australia`s first Hollywood success story, depended on the Everleigh Rail Yards, as the NFSA will be quick to explain.
The New Zealanders have their NBN, called the UFB, and it too is watching a government gavotte over regulation, speed, efficiency and realistic futures. Trouble is, the government gets hives when it contemplates actually controlling bits of the economy it has deregulated so assiduously.
Three thou gets you a flying eyeball, in HD, on a tiny chopper. The new invisibility cloaks being developed cost rather more, so the battle for privacy just became asymmetrical.
While the scope of SBS may be cramped by poverty, it wisely runs a terrific strand of food shows stretching back thirty years. Luke Nguyen has become an instant institution, as he spices the culinary arts with a culture he continues to love.
The Commerce Commission`s broadband summit, which perhaps received a little more media attention that it otherwise might have following Stephen Fry`s tweets about his lack of service yesterday, has offered little beyond statements entrenching the positions of the major players and stakeholders. Sky and the government want to avoid regulation, TVNZ sort of finds itself with a foot in both camps, and MediaWorks wants to see some regulation.
At the invitation of Sir Richard Taylor’s children’s entertainment company, Pukeko Pictures, a delegation of nine senior executives from China’s Guandong Zhujiang Film and Media Corporation, SASA Cinema, Guangzhou Exchange Services Group, Asian Road Club and Grand Entertainment are visiting New Zealand this week.
Michael Clarkin is an emerging producer with a sharp eye for process and possibilities. Here he plunders his notes to reflect on the winter market run from the Rotterdam Tiger, which is much friendlier than Berlin`s Bear.
The Aotearoa-New Zealand Film Festival is to be hosted by the Honolulu Academy of Arts. It aims to showcase “vibrant traditions of Aotearoa (the Maori name for New Zealand), and its indigenous Maori culture”, featuring “shining examples of the country’s powerful independent cinema movement”.
Described by the release as "an industry phenomenon", Julia Overton has been awarded the 2012 Stanley Hawes Award, which honours the memory of the first Producer-in-Chief of the Australian National Film Board and Commonwealth Film Unit.
A week after the end of its theatrical run, When A City Falls screens on TV3 on the first anniversary of the city`s biggest quake, and heads to DVD a day later.