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16 June 2009 12:26 AM, PDT | FilmInk.com.au | See recent FilmInk.com.au news »

Cities around Australia have well and truly been swept up in the excitement of Film Festival season and there's more to come with the 2009 Message Sticks Indigenous Film Festival ready to tour the country in July.   In its 10th anniversary, the Festival will tour both metropolitan and rural cities around the country exhibiting films from the next wave of Indigenous filmmakers. This year's Festival will be headlined by Warwick Thornton's Samson & Delilah which was the recipient of the coveted Camera d'Or at Cannes this year.   Highlights of the Message Sticks Indigenous Film Festival include the premiere of seven short films including directorial debuts from actresses Deborah Mailman (Radiance, Rabbit-Proof Fence, Secret Life Of Us) and Leah Purcell (Jindabyne, The Proposition). »

2 February 2009 4:10 PM, PST | FilmInk.com.au | See recent FilmInk.com.au news »

A whole new meaning was given to the film industry's term ‘green screen' in Sydney recently, when the very first Grass (Get Real About Sustainable Screens) forum was held.   In Darlinghurst's Heffron Community Hall, professionals from the film industry, sustainable energy enthusiasts and members of the general public gathered to witness a panel discussion featuring director Ray Lawrence (Jindabyne, Lantana, Bliss), producer Emma Lawrence, Dr Richard Smith (director of Crude), film reviewer Nell Schofield and Dave Sag, founder of Carbon Planet.   Grass is an initiative of the Australian Directors' Guild (Adg) and Harriet McKern, General Manager of the Adg, said, "I think getting the issue of the environment and sustainable practices and offsetting under the nose and in discussion for the Australian film industry is critical. »

2 articles from 2009