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PRESS RELEASE Daring, unconventional, and cutting-edge cinema is returning to Melbourne and Sydney with the highly anticipated return of the Fantastic Film Festival Australia (FFFA). Running from 14-…
Hello there! The 95th Academy Awards bring the 2022 movie year to an informal close. It was an insane year filled with incredible films. I might have something more coming soon...but I spent about th…
PRESS RELEASE Readers please note that this press release contains mention of sexual assault. Every day in Australia around 85 sexual assaults are reported on average [1] – which is likely to be a f…
It’s been a little over a year since I first talked to Sue Maslin AO about documentary filmmaking and took a look back at some of the great feature films and documentaries that she has helped bring to…
The Scream franchise has had its highs and lows yet remains essentially watchable even when it’s not firing on all cylinders. Losing Wes Craven in 2015 was a blow to the entire horror community. He ma…
Powered by JustWatch To say Sarah Polley is an accomplished filmmaker is an understatement. From her first onscreen appearance at age four; to her transition into more adult roles with films suc…
PRESS RELEASE A groundbreaking program to recruit, train and mentor Australian Defence Force veterans into a career in Australia’s film and television industry is underway. The program is a joint ini…
Powered by JustWatch Mia Hansen-Løve has the ability to create seemingly specific and a times highbrow topic and turn them into something relatable to every day living. Although Bergman Island e…
Powered by JustWatch Acclaimed documentarian Alice Diop’s first narrative feature, Saint Omer, could easily have been a true crime documentary as it is based on the case of a Senegalese-French w…
Powered by JustWatch Director Michel Hazanavicius has his own love affair with cinema that has seen him direct the Oscar winning The Artist an almost silent film about the silent film era and it…
Powered by JustWatch Alice Winocour’s fourth feature moves into somewhat personal territory for the writer/director. Partly inspired by her brother’s survival of the 2015 Bataclan terrorist atta…
This time a year ago, we launched our very first book: The Australian Film Yearbook - 2021 Edition It featured a wealth of interviews, reviews, and filmmaker insights about the Australian films rele…