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INDUSTRY№ 01
MIFF 2025 sold 155,000 tickets and the maths still does not add up
Ticket sales are up 5 per cent on 2023, but sponsorship is flat and the programming budget came in under inflation.
ODETTE MALOUF30.07.2025
INDUSTRY№ 02
Sydney Film Festival sold out its opening night and struggled to fill the rest
The State Theatre was full on night one; by day five the programme was competing with itself and the weather.
ODETTE MALOUF26.06.2024
INDUSTRY№ 03
MIFF sold 148,000 tickets in 2023 and the margin was thinner than ever
The audience came back, the sponsorship did not, and the festival is running on volunteer labour and Creative Victoria grants.
ODETTE MALOUF28.07.2023
INDUSTRY№ 04
Sydney Film Festival 2022 sold out the State Theatre and struggled to fill everything else
The gala screenings were full, the mid-afternoon documentary sessions were not, and the gap tells you where the audience is willing to spend.
ODETTE MALOUF12.07.2022
INDUSTRY№ 05
Australian cinema exhibition lost $340 million in the first quarter and the count is not over
Event, Hoyts, and Village lost a combined $340 million in Q1 2020, and the independent cinemas behind them lost something harder to measure.
ODETTE MALOUF26.05.2020
ESSAYS№ 06
The empty cinema down the road
The Palace on Norton Street has its lights off, and I keep walking past it like it might change its mind.
MARA DENG22.04.2020
INDUSTRY№ 07
Every cinema in Australia closed in March and the industry counted what was left
On 23 March 2020, every cinema screen in the country went dark, and the production pipeline behind them froze with it.
ODETTE MALOUF26.03.2020