Next month I’ll be pitching a feature film to private investors. It’s a very different room to the ones most Australian producers were trained for. I’ve learned that there’s a
With his debut feature film Brando With A Glass Eye, Greek-born Australian writer/director Antonis Tsonis has crafted a work of rare power and originality driven by the singular passion of
A few days ago, I went to set up a Letterboxd page for Wolf Creek Legacy. Except, someone had already done it. At first, I assumed it had come through
For a long time, documentaries sat just outside the main game. They were respected, occasionally celebrated, but rarely treated as central to how the industry built value. Scripted projects carried
At the close of 2025, Screen Australia reported a record headline: $2.7 billion in drama production spend, up 43%. On paper, it looked like a boom year. The kind of
Creators are starting to decide what gets made. Not entirely. Not in every case. But often enough that it’s changing how projects get financed, packaged and picked up. For a
For decades, the film industry has operated around a single moment. The greenlight. A script is developed. Talent is attached. A package is built. Then it goes into a room
Debut writer/director Mick Connolly went out on his own with his feature comedy Hands Up Who’d Like a Hug?, shooting for next-to-nothing on an iPhone 13 with a minimal crew
Why standalone films are becoming structurally fragile
For most of the modern film era, the financing logic was straightforward. Write the script. Attach a director. Package cast. Raise the money. The audience came later. Distributors would position