Screen Director Magazine

Issue 02 of the iPad Magazine I publish on behalf of the Australian Director's Guild has been published to the Newsstand.

Inside I interview director Jessica Hobbs, Bob Connolly has included his Harvey Weinstein address, Stephen Wallace shares Part 2 of his history of the ADG and Mike Hoath's film Crosshairs is featured.

You can check it out here.

https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/screen-director/id689927170?mt=8

Wish

Steven Soderbergh's State of Cinema

Steven Soderbergh gives an amazing talk on the future of cinema and the absurdity of the studio system's business model.  

Sydney Sings

My friend Suzanne Barton works for Creativity Australia, and she asked me to go along and take some photos of yesterday's gathering of Sydney Sings, a community choir. Here are some photos

Vimeo On Demand

​Today Vimeo has announced an incredible new feature, called Vimeo On Demand, which allows content creators to sell their work to their audience directly.

I think this is a really fantastic opportunity in enabling filmmakers to make a return on investment on their projects, which has been something missing from a lot of the streaming websites, outside of the advertised supported model, which I’m less favourable of.  

Once you can start to sell web series and other subscription format content direct, I think it’ll have a really great platform for fans of your work to support it, and the 90/10 split seems really fair as well.

Here’s hoping it’s a success and I think it really closes the gap in the online distribution models.