The colors on the screen rise and fall, nearly bursting from the borders of the geometric shapes. Walter Ruttmann’s 1921 short film “Lichtspiel Opus I” is oil paint on glass, but tonight in The ...

Australian independent production house Photoplay has appointed Karen Radzyner as its head of development. The company is the only Australian firm to have a show selected for MipTV’s CanneSeries.

It may seem hard to believe now, but there were awards given out in Hollywood before the Oscars came along. Nine years before the first Academy Awards were handed out in 1929, the movie fan ...

Most of us have probably assumed that the days of video stores are over. Those friendly clerks at the counter who had your dream job (watching movies all day and offering film recommendations) had to ...

Photoplay Has announced the signing of award-winning New Zealand filmmaker Louis Sutherland (lead image) for representation in Australia. A performance driven director who has been called a “big softy ...

In his 1919 manual for screenwriters, Ten Million Photoplay Plots, Wycliff Aber Hill provided this taxonomy of possible types of dramatic "situations," first running them down in outline form, then ...

Photoplay is thrilled to announce the signing of internationally renowned director, Lance Kelleher. Kelleher returns to Australia from time spent living and working in the United States and across ...

The latest campaign from Greenpeace and Photoplay’s Dropbear, ‘Ocean's’ uses illustrated animation to raise awareness on long-line fishing. The story was pitched to Photoplay’s Jonathan Chong ...