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Brodie Poole’s documentary General Hercules portrays the vibrant personality of the Western Australian mining town Kalgoorlie as it undergoes the 2019 mayoral election campaign. Hot in the thick of th…
Set during the 2019 Kalgoorlie-Boulder Mayoral election, General Hercules positions the titular John ‘General Hercules’ Katahanas as the David to the incumbent Mayor John Bowler’s Goliath. The regular…
Writer/Director Craig Boreham is one of the leading filmmakers working in Australian queer cinema right now. His 2016 film Teenage Kicks echoed the work of Ana Kokkinos’s Head On, with Miles Szanto’s…
Director Simon Target heads to the country with his latest film, Warrawong… the windy place on the hill, and explores the notion of what life on a farm is like in modern Australia. Following Sue and B…
Indie filmmaker Rowan Devereux turns his gaze to the trials and tribulations of Sydney’s turbulent rental market with his feature debut Evicted! A Modern Romance, with the newly unemployed Maggie (Ama…
The 69th Sydney Film Festival is back to its rightful June climate of cold sunlight and freezing temperatures, back to the unbelievably ornate State Theatre and the various venues on either side of th…
Shaunak Sen's film All That Breathes premiered this January at the Sundance Film Festival and promptly scored the Grand Jury Prize for documentaries. In May 2022, only a few weeks ago, it screened…
Through his work as a director, Luke Cornish shows a growing curiosity and interest in the world around him, making his interest in the street dance scene in Sydney the perfect subject for his feature…
As the screen industry around the world implements long-overdue changes in terms of gender and cultural inclusion, Ana Tiwary's work behind the scenes has gained more importance and momentum. Over…
All films in the Jurassic collection feature a mixture of a few key elements: scientific hubris, corporate/capitalist malfeasance, a kid (or two) in trouble, and lots of dinosaurs. Colin Trevorrow’s l…
It’s every filmmakers dream to have their film screened at the prestigious South By South West film festival in Austin, Texas, and that honour is doubled when your film is a horror film and gets a lat…
Screenability is the Sydney Film Festivals inclusive program that places people with disability at the center of the narrative and boosts the participation of underrepresented groups in the screen ind…