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Artists’ desperate fight for recognition results in blood, sweat and tears going unrewarded — and unpaid. Just ask filmmakers who enter the Tropfest short film competition every year.

This week John Polson, film director and organiser of the world’s largest short film festival, created a different kind of production: a bizarre PR debacle on Twitter, writes Luke Buckmaster.

Tropfest cheat? What goes around comes around. An elderly woman’s car breaks down in the middle of nowhere. A man helps her get it started. She offers to pay him. The Good Samaritan refuses. The old lady goes to a cafe. She is served by a heavily pregnant waitress. She hands the pregnant waitress, dressed in […]

Has Tropfest got too big for its own good? Crikey speaks to organiser John Polson after another wildly successful event in Sydney — which some filmmakers refuse to enter.