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Sydney Film Festival Interview: Christian Byers on bringing out the dead with Death of an Undertaker

Sydney Film Festival Interview: Christian Byers on bringing out the dead with Death of an Undertaker

Connor Dalton Jun 5, 2025 18 min read
Interviews australian film Christian Byers Death of an Undertaker documentary Drama Interview Sydney Film Festival

One of the most ambitious titles at this year's Sydney Film Festival is unequivocally Death of an Undertaker. It is an experimental fusion of truth and invention. It centres on Sparrow, an underli…

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St Kilda Film Festival Interview: Kat Dominis on building the award-winning short film Unspoken

St Kilda Film Festival Interview: Kat Dominis on building the award-winning short film Unspoken

Andrew F Peirce Jun 5, 2025 2 min read
Interviews Podcasts australian film Drama Interview Kat Dominis st Kilda Film Festival

Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. I remember sitting in the Mercury at the Adelaide Film Festival and watching…

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Simply Stories Docs filmmaker Jaden Bowen on bringing Path to Paris to life

Simply Stories Docs filmmaker Jaden Bowen on bringing Path to Paris to life

Guest Author Jun 4, 2025 5 min read
Articles australian film documentary Path to Paris Simply Stories Docs Webseries

Path to Paris was a race against time from concept to execution. The web series was born from a casual conversation my co-producer, Jake Holroyd, and I had with Screen Australia’s team during AIDC 202…

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Sydney Film Festival: Amalie Atkins on the warm hug of a film that is Agatha's Almanac

Sydney Film Festival: Amalie Atkins on the warm hug of a film that is Agatha's Almanac

Andrew F Peirce Jun 4, 2025 2 min read
Interviews Podcasts documentary Interview Sydney Film Festival

Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. Amalie Atkins loving documentary Agatha's Almanac follows Agatha Bock, Am…

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Sydney Film Festival Interview: Sean Byrne, Jai Courtney, and Hassie Harrison on the bloody brutality of Dangerous Animals

Sydney Film Festival Interview: Sean Byrne, Jai Courtney, and Hassie Harrison on the bloody brutality of Dangerous Animals

Nadine Whitney Jun 3, 2025 1 min read
Interviews Podcasts australian film Dangerous Animals Hassie Harrison Interview Jai Courtney Sean Byrne Sydney Film Festival

Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. Queensland: Beautiful one day, deadly the next! For American drifter Zephyr (…

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Sydney Film Festival Interview: Ellis Park director Justin Kurzel on being in the orbit of Warren Ellis

Sydney Film Festival Interview: Ellis Park director Justin Kurzel on being in the orbit of Warren Ellis

Andrew F Peirce Jun 2, 2025 4 min read
Interviews Podcasts australian film documentary Interview Justin Kurzel Madman podcast Sydney Film Festival

Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. Director Justin Kurzel has crafted a filmography built on exploring the impac…

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Sydney Film Festival Interview: Cannes Palme d’Or winner Jafar Panahi

Sydney Film Festival Interview: Cannes Palme d’Or winner Jafar Panahi

Andy Hazel Jun 2, 2025 8 min read
Interviews Cannes Film Festival Interview Jafar Panahi Sydney Film Festival

One of the most powerful moments at this year’s Cannes Film Festival — and perhaps in its history — came when Iranian director Jafar Panahi learned he had won the Palme d’Or. As jury president Juliett…

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90s All Over Me Part 8: 1996 – From Albino Alligator to William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet

90s All Over Me Part 8: 1996 – From Albino Alligator to William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet

BD Kooyman Jun 2, 2025 25 min read
Articles Review

90s All Over Me takes inspiration from 80s All Over, the Drew McWeeny/Scott Weinberg podcast that attempted to review every major film release of the 80s one month at a time; that podcast ended circa…

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Sydney Film Festival Interview: Tony Gardiner and Lachlan Marks on the bloody and bonkers short DIY

Sydney Film Festival Interview: Tony Gardiner and Lachlan Marks on the bloody and bonkers short DIY

Andrew F Peirce May 29, 2025 2 min read
Interviews Podcasts Comedy DIY horror Interview Lachlan Marks short film st Kilda Film Festival Sydney Film Festival

Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. There's a delirious level of dark comedy that thrives in the new short fi…

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Sydney Film Festival Interview: Mistress Dispeller director Elizabeth Lo talks capturing a fight for fidelity 

Sydney Film Festival Interview: Mistress Dispeller director Elizabeth Lo talks capturing a fight for fidelity 

Connor Dalton May 29, 2025 12 min read
Interviews documentary Drama Elizabeth Lo Interview Mistress Dispeller Sydney Film Festival

A person who promised forever elects to turn unfaithful, knowing full well the shame and hurt they will inflict on their spouse. It's not an uncommon situation, but variance springs from how the v…

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Grief hungers and consumes in the Philippou brothers’ Bring Her Back

Grief hungers and consumes in the Philippou brothers’ Bring Her Back

Nadine Whitney May 27, 2025 4 min read
Films Reviews australian film horror Review

It hungers. The emptiness, the void, the absence that entropically pulls every molecule of your being when you are grieving an inconceivable loss. It hungers and cannot be satiated by time, comfort, r…

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Sydney Film Festival Interview: Reaping the Harvest with Athina Rachel Tsangari

Sydney Film Festival Interview: Reaping the Harvest with Athina Rachel Tsangari

Nadine Whitney May 27, 2025 9 min read
Interviews Interview Sydney Film Festival

Athina Rachel Tsangari’s fourth feature film Harvest is also her first in English. Set in an indistinct historical period it is the story of a small crofting village that faces extinction due to the E…

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