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Director and producer Sonya Pemberton is one of Australia’s hardest working science-focused filmmakers. From her award-winning work on ABC’s Catalyst to working as director on science-backed films lik…
Patrick Marlborough (they/them) is a writer, a comedian, a Rove stan, and bipolar autistic whose new show Killing Rove recently played to sold out audiences at Perth’s Fringe Festival. Before heading…
One of the finest writers spinning words in Australia right now is Patrick Marlborough. You've read their work on The Guardian, The Saturday Paper, Vice, Rolling Stone, and have seen their Twitte…
Making its world debut at the 2021/22 Perth International Arts Festival Lotterywest Films line-up is Renée Webster’s uproarious and joyful comedy How to Please a Woman. With its sessions instantly sel…
It’s not hyperbole to say I’m a little bit obsessed with the new Courtney Barnett documentary Anonymous Club. Directed by Barnett’s friend Danny Cohen, this is not your typical music-doc, with Barnett…
Available to Watch Here: Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Filmmaker Ivan Sen is a one-man shop, writing, directing, shooting, scoring his films fr…
Turn your phone off, friend You're amongst friends and we don't need no interruptions Leave your shoes at the door, along with your troubles Your troubles, your troubles, your troubles Anonym…
It was almost a year ago that I interviewed Girls Can't Surf director Christopher Nelius about his film. He closed the interview by saying: Why don’t we put in a statue of a woman at Bondi? She e…
Help us publish The Australian Film Yearbook – 2021 Edition The Australian Film industry is flourishing. In 2021 alone, there were over one hundred Australian feature films, documentaries, and short…
Blind Ambition is the new film from co-directors Warwick Ross and Robert Coe. It follows the journey of Zimbabwean refugees Joseph, Tinashe, Marlvin and Pardon as they start a new life in South Africa…
Oscar winner Eva Orner’s filmography is made up of a deep catalogue of activist films, from the asylum seeker focused Chasing Asylum to her work as producer on Alex Gibney’s American military focused…
Sue Maslin is one of Australia’s finest producers, helping bring to life films like The Dressmaker, Jill Bilcock: Dancing the Invisible, Brazen Hussies, and the upcoming Anonymous Club. At the 2022 A…