URBAN CINEFILE - SELECTED HIGHLIGHTS

1998
• Winner, Best Arts & Entertainment Site Award, Aust Financial Review/Telstra Internet Awards
• Begins syndication of content to Telstra BigPond Movies and is first Australian content partner for AOL

1999
• Begins syndication of content to Yahoo!
• Begins syndication of content to Virtual Communities
• Hosts AFI Awards webcast for AOL (and first live chat on AOL Australia with Kate Ceberano)
• Andrew & Louise host official Telstra webcast of the opening of Fox Studios; over 40 Red Carpet interviews with celebrity guests including Baz Luhrmann, Tom Cruise, Kylie Minogue, Kerry Packer and Rupert Murdoch;
• National Library of Australia invites Urban Cinefile to participate in PANDORA, the ongoing web archive, citing it as “an online publication of cultural value”;

2000
• Andrew & Louise host Telstra webcast of Tropfest
• Begins syndication of content to LookSmart
• Finalist, Best Entertainment Site in the Aust Fin Review Awards (last one held).

2001
• Andrew & Louise host Telstra webcast of Tropfest
• Russell Crowe presents inaugural Urban Cinefile Birthday Honours for Outstanding Achievement by Australians in Film, on broadband – and is inaugural inductee in our Hall of Fame
• Begins syndication to Excite (later merged with Optus)

2002
• Andrew appointed Channel Host, Subscription TV Channel World Movies (continues until November 2006)

2003
• Begins syndicating streaming movie reviews to Optus for mobile phones (in association with AAP)

2004
• Produces doco of Screen Producers Assoc of Australia conference. Distributed on DVD internationally as well as to local industry and politicians
• Urban Cinefile editors host and produce short weekly movie review program, Movies This Week, syndicated to leading arts and entertainment channels, Ovation and World Movies

2005
• Begins syndication of movie reviews and other content to CitySearch
• Urban Cinefile establishes and sponsors formal Audience Awards at the Sydney Film Festival, creating six categories across the two major programming strands (World Cinema & Sidebar Program)

2006
• Launch of The Filmmakers’ Studio, a joint venture with 25 year old Metro Screen, monthly series of intimate studio interviews with established Australian filmmakers; inaugural year guests include Cate Shortland, Bruce Beresford, John Seale, Al Clark, Phillip Noyce, Susie Porter, Jason Ballantine
• Again sponsors the Urban Cinefile Audience Awards at the Sydney Film Festival;

2007
• AFTRS Centre for Screen Business commissions Urban Cinefile’s Editor to produce & execute an extensive series of on camera interviews of industry practitioners as an online resource for its website.
• February 19: 10th anniversary party and Forum (The Future of Movies) at Chauvel Cinema; February 22, 520th weekly edition published.

2008
* Urban Cinefile produces Doing Dungog, a 50 minute documentary on Dungog Film Festival
* Andrew records 30 on camera interviews for the Living Democracy exhibition at the Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House
* Urban Cinefile presents Introduction to World Movies series at Trinity Grammar

2009
* Andrew launches MugaBegone, online petition to oust Robert Mugabe from Zimbabwe
* Doing Dungog is broadcast in April on TV Sydney
* Production continues on The Knowledge for AFTRS, and transcripts from the series begin to appear in the new bi-annual AFTRS publication, Lumina
* Andrew commissioned to research Art of Influence exhibition for Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House
* Andrew presents more Best of International Cinema and Movies Now courses at Sydney University's Centre for Continuing Education

Updated February 16, 2012