Stellar Film Festival 2025: Who, What, and When
The 2025 Stellar Film Festival line-up is, like all years, a top tier slice of some of the very best Australian short films around. We're eager to once again provide support to the festival with m…
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WA Made Film Festival Interview: James Hoare on the art of cinematography on a budget
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. Cinematographer James Hoare is a recent graduate from Curtin University, wher…
Queer Screen Interview: Sally! Co-Directors Ondine Rarey and Jörg Fockele on bringing the story of Sally Gearhart to life on screen
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. The joyous and jubilant documentary Sally! - the exclamation mark is delibera…
Queer Screen Interview: Karen Knox and Lane Webber on their raucous indie rock film We Forgot to Break Up
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. We Forgot to Break Up tells the story of fictional Canadian band The New Norm…
Come Again: Nicholas Verso’s Invisible Boys is the emotional coming of age gay drama we need right now
Nicholas Verso intimately understands the emotional rollercoaster that comes with that stage of existence where, thanks to puberty, ageing, and this cruel thing we call life, you find yourself as a te…
Sundance Film Festival Interview: Khartoum filmmakers on the simple act of coming together as an act of resistance
Image: Top L-R: Yousef Jubeh, Brahim Snoopy, Anas Saeed, Phil Cox; Bottom L-R: Giovanna Stopponi, Rawia Alhag, Timeea Mohamed Ahmed; Photo Copyright: Native Voice Films Five lives. One city. The fat…
Sundance Film Festival: "This is my advocacy" - Gen_ Director Gianluca Matarrese on Documenting Body Autonomy on Film
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. Gianluca Matarrese's gentle documentary Gen_ opens with overwhelming imag…
Steven Soderbergh plays with the form and function of cinema with his spectral family drama Presence
Steven Soderbergh’s body of work shows an auteur who engages in the art of exploring how the form and function of cinema impacts narrative. Soderbergh’s process of embedding filmmaking techniques with…
Sundance Film Festival: View from the Floor Directors Mindie Lind & Megan Griffiths on Bringing Their Animated Short to Life
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. If there's a minor blessing that has emerged from the pandemic, it's…
"The most important thing that remains is that we love each other": Karla Sofía Gascón on the Past and Future of Emilia Pérez
Karla Sofía Gascón made Academy Award history as the first openly transgender person to be nominated for an acting award for her performance as the titular character in Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Pérez.…
‘To make lightness, you have to have darkness’: Dougal Wilson on Directing Paddington in Peru
How do you follow up a film which managed to dethrone Citizen Kane as the best film of all time? Well, if you’re first-time feature filmmaker Dougal Wilson, you approach directing Paddington in Peru w…
Voices in Deep: Jason Raftopoulos on the Purpose of Personal Filmmaking
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. Jason Raftopoulous is a filmmaker who I owe my continued writing career to. I…