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The quality of films submitted for the 24th Warner Roadshow Studios Queensland New Filmmakers Awards (QNFA) suggests that the future of the Queensland film industry is in very safe hands, Screen Queensland CEO, Maureen Barron said today while announcing the 2010 finalists.

“The panel of industry judges had a very tough time selecting the best of the best from more than 100 entries, with film students from Griffith University, Bond University, QUT and JMC Academy generating particularly high entry rates,” said Ms Barron.

Iranian-American artist, Naz Shahrokh, is concerned with the natural environment as seen through the lens of various mediums. In her current work Shahrokh has been working on site-specific installations and using leaves as the base for her painting.

Her materials are detritus, whether natural or man-made and she strives to transform these often overlooked banal materials and inject them with a new found value.

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ERIC BRIDGEMAN New Photographs from KoKwara trail
ARIs PRABAWA In the Service of Nature
TESSA ZETTEL & KARl KHOE Make-do garden city

OpenIng: THURSDAY 25 March
Exhibition Dates: 26 March – 8 May 2010

PUBLIC PROGRAMS:

Artist Floor talk Sat 27 March 3pm

Make Do Garden City Workshops
Saturday 10 April 11am-1pm &
Saturday 8 May 11am-1pm (CLOSING EVENT)

The Torpedo Factory Art Center’s Target Gallery and The Art League present Female Shorts: Film & Video Showcase (FS) on June 3-6, 2010. This showcase brings high-quality independent short films, documentaries, filmmaker panels, and arts presentations to Alexandria, Virginia.

Yep, that's right, Sospeso Readings is back after a short suspension. This time Rhys Rodgers, the pink-haired poet-boy, and Kristin Henry, one of Melbourne poetry's leading ladies, will tell you all about love, space, and other big things. Once again we're privileged to have Deb Vanderwerp, poet, singer, fiddle player, actor, deity, and creative writing course coordinator, as our MC. It's going to be a fantastic night, hope to see you there!

Australia's first Kung Fu Feature film - "Maximum Choppage 2" will be screening at the Australian Film Festival on the 2nd March @ The Australian Film Festival.

One night only in Sydney to see some Mega Kung Fu Action --- Aussie style!!

Q&A with the filmmakers will follow the end of the screening.

TICKETS @ MOSHTIX

Entries for the 5th Sydney Latin American Film Festival, taking place in September this year, is now open. The deadline for submissions is 30 April 2010. Once again this year will recognize the Best Feature Film, Best Documentary and Best Short as voted by our audiences with cash prizes. The Festival will also once again feature Australian-based films in a local filmmakers' session and present the prestigious local filmmaker award and accompanying prize.

Since my last post was spent railing against the ineluctable, silent efficiency of that juggernaut of institutional change, Anita Taylor and her plans to turn a dinosaur into a jet airplane with no other tools than a calculator and a carving knife - I thought it only appropriate to dedicate this post to the other side of the argument.  The argument for change that is.  I know how to butter my bread on both sides, and burn my bridges from both ends.

 So, the gallows are working again at the old Darlinghurst Goal and the Sydney art community is abuzz with the collective silence that surrounds the radical overhaul of one its major institutions.  It’s true that Jacques Delaruelle wrote a letter, at once eloquent and toothless, The Australian published a non-committal story basically reporting that Jacque had written a letter, and Vasili Kaliman tweeted a barbed good riddance.  Aside from that, there is an abiding silence and an almost complete lack of public dialogue around the forces playing themselves out at the Nat