Isolated at Harvard to starring at Pixar: women face tough road into tech

CLIENT: TUGG
OUTLET: AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW

Showing how computer code can be a paintbrush of sorts for all kinds of creative endeavours is just one way a new documentary is hoping to inspire young women to take up computer science.

"The combination of art and tech is my favourite thing in the world," says Danielle Feinberg, director of photography at Pixar and star of the new documentary CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap, a look at the lopsided nature of the tech industry and the increasing need for computer science graduates, particularly women.

CODE will be released nationally in cinemas via TUGG.com.au, from April 6.

World's top chef fights food wastage to feed the homeless

CLIENT: TUGG
OUTLET: ABC NEWS BREAKFAST

'To feed the planet, you have to find the waste' Italian Chef Massimo Bottura on gathering together the world's best chefs and using leftovers and food waste to create banquets for the homeless.  He talks to ABC NEWS BREAKFAST about his new movie to be released on TUGG later this year, Theatre of Life.

Film depicts nightmare of living with OCD

CLIENT: TUGG
OUTLET: THE BRISBANE TIMES

Getting ready for work should not be a crippling marathon of anxiety but for someone living with uncontrollable obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), it is a daily reality.

This is the subject of Australian film Eight, from local director Peter Blackburn, which was filmed Brisbane's outer suburbs.

Charleville-born lead actor Libby Munro said taking on the role of OCD sufferer Sarah Prentice required a uniquely sensitive approach.

The 82-minute psychological thriller was shot in a single take, aimed at highlighting the overbearing anxiety people with OCD experience. For screening times go to https://tugg.com.au/eight/

Legionnaires outbreak in Sydney

CLIENT: DR ZAC TURNER
OUTLET: CHANNEL 7, THE MORNING SHOW

Dr Zac Turner joins The Morning Show to discuss the dangerous bacterial infection found in a busy Sydney area.

200 reasons why people choose 'Life Off Grid"

CLIENT: TUGG
OUTLET: ENVIRONMENTAL MAGAZINE ONLINE

Why do people choose to live in homes that are not connected – by design or by default – to established electricity or gas networks?

It’s a question that we have asked here on One Step many times. But for Phillip Vannini, producer of the Canadian 2015 documentary Life Off Grid, it’s a question he asked at least 200 times, between 2011 and 2013, as he travelled to every province and territory in the country visiting “off-gridders” in their homes.

For screening times go to https://tugg.com.au/life-off-grid/

followit Is Like Instagram For Property Hunters

CLIENT: FOLLOWIT
OUTLET: LIFEHACKER

followit is a new app for Android and iOS that pitches itself as the Instagram of real estate. Instead of following friends and celebrities, you follow houses in specific streets and suburbs where you want to live. Here’s how it works.

As its name implies, followit uses the “follow” mechanic made popular by social media platforms. From within the app, users can follow specific houses, streets, suburbs and real estate agents to receive live updates and notifications. Once set up, they will only see properties that tick all the right boxes.

followit’s main claim to fame is its sense of immediacy — properties that fit the user’s criteria appear on the app as soon as they are listed online. (Traditional property sites like Domain purportedly take up to two days for listings to appear after they have been uploaded by a real estate agent.) This is thanks to an automation process that allows participating agents to instantly upload listings to followit’s portal with the click of a button.

Students gather at Bondi Beach

CLIENT: BIGGEST ENGLISH LESSON
OUTLET: SEVEN NEWS

As the benefits of the mining boom fade Australia is riding another economic wave with international education generating billions of dollars. Damien Smith reports.

Thousands flock to English class at Bondi

CLIENT: BIGGEST ENGLISH lesson
OUTLET: SBS NEWS

About 3000 international students heading to Bondi Beach for what they hope will be the world's biggest outdoor English lesson.

Beat the housing scrum

CLIENT: FOLLOWIT
OUTLET: THE AUSTRALIAN

A new Australian app promising to change the way Australians ­interact with real estate listings is set to launch nationally under the guidance of a former Facebook and Amazon executive.

followit, an app and desktop platform that gives users a push notification whenever a property they’re interested in is on the market, is backed by Macquarie Bank. Most major Australian real estate firms, including, LJ Hooker, Century 21, and Belle Property have already signed on.

Real estate coach and followit executive director Michael Sheargold describes it as a live communication platform for the real estate industry and consumers.

Education revenue soars to become Australia's $20 billion export

CLIENT: BIGGEST ENGLISH LESSON
OUTLET: AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW

Export revenue from international students, driven by the lower dollar, has soared 13 per cent in 2015 to make education a $20 billion export industry.

In trade figures released on Wednesday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said total spending by international students in Australia – including course fees, accommodation, living expenses and recreation – was $19.2 billion in 2015, up from $17 billion the previous year.

Phil Honeywood, executive director of International Education Association of Australia, said the data showed international students were making a significant contribution to the economy at a time when resource exports were flagging.

Next week the international education industry will promote itself by holding what it bills as the world's biggest English lesson on Sydney's Bondi Beach. Organisers say the event, on February 12, is expected to attract 3000 international students.