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Blueback Review - Perth Lotterywest Film Festival

Blueback Review - Perth Lotterywest Film Festival

Andrew F Peirce Nov 22, 2022 6 min read
Films Reviews australian film Ilsa Fogg Mia Wasikowska Radha Mitchell Review Robert Connolly

Widower Dora raises her daughter Abby in the remote fictional beachside town of Longboat Bay, teaching her to respect the ocean with responsible and sustainable fishing while also educating her about…

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SBS Names Winner of Emerging Writers Competition 2022

SBS Names Winner of Emerging Writers Competition 2022

Press Releases Nov 22, 2022 3 min read
Articles Emerging Writers sbs

PRESS RELEASE SBS has today named Tessa Piper the winner of its annual SBS Emerging Writers’ Competition for her work ‘The Usual’. Piper, a 37-year-old public servant from Melbourne, takes out the $…

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Celebrate Ten Years of NITV in December With A Stack of Special Broadcasts

Press Releases Nov 21, 2022 7 min read
Articles Australian TV NITV

PRESS RELEASE On 12 December 2022, National Indigenous Television (NITV) celebrates 10 years since it launched free-to-air and began beaming into every Australian household as part of the SBS network…

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<strong>Blue Bird Down: What the Deterioration of Twitter Means for Independent Creatives</strong>

<strong>Blue Bird Down: What the Deterioration of Twitter Means for Independent Creatives</strong>

Lynnaire MacDonald Nov 21, 2022 4 min read
Articles independent film social media Twitter

Lynnaire MacDonald is a NZ-based producer and former publicist/social media marketer of Māori and Pākehā descent. She is currently producing her first short, SAVE ME, which is in pre-production. Sinc…

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Joost Bakker Chats About Greenhouse by Joost, Our Climate Emergency and Regenerative Living in This Interview

Joost Bakker Chats About Greenhouse by Joost, Our Climate Emergency and Regenerative Living in This Interview

Andrew F Peirce Nov 17, 2022 10 min read
Interviews australian cinema documentary Greenhouse by Joost Interview Joost Bakker Madman Rhian Skirving

Before the pandemic hit, environmental campaigner and champion of Zero Waste Living, Joost Bakker, came up with the idea of a self-sustaining home that would give the occupants a circular system of wa…

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Living Review – One of the Most Beautiful and Melancholy Films of the Year

Living Review – One of the Most Beautiful and Melancholy Films of the Year

Nadine Whitney Nov 16, 2022 5 min read
Films Reviews Drama Kazuo Ishiguro Living Review

Just as the American West has served as the perfect translocation for remakes of Akira Kurosawa’s Samurai films, London in 1953 is exactly the right setting for a remake of the director’s satire on bu…

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Nope Review - A Cinematic Spectacle of Horror and Imagination

Nope Review - A Cinematic Spectacle of Horror and Imagination

Christopher John Nov 15, 2022 8 min read
Reviews Nope Review

I will cast abominable filth upon you, make you vile and make you a spectacle. Nahum 3:6 What is a bad miracle? A miracle, much like what is said to occur in the source of the above text (the Bibl…

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The Casting Guild of Australia Announces the 2022 CGA Rising Stars

Press Releases Nov 14, 2022 5 min read
Articles australian film

PRESS RELEASE The Casting Guild of Australia has crowned Australia’s top emerging talent of 2022, revealing its 8th annual list of CGA Rising Stars. Highlighting up to ten extraordinary actors with…

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Oil Review – Hayley McElhinney and Abbey Morgan Stun in Black Swan State Theatre Company’s Impressive Socio-Political Play

Oil Review – Hayley McElhinney and Abbey Morgan Stun in Black Swan State Theatre Company’s Impressive Socio-Political Play

Andrew F Peirce Nov 11, 2022 5 min read
Reviews Drama Hayley McElhinney Oil Review

Black Swan State Theatre Company’s presentation of Ella Hickson’s impressive, yet exhausting, play Oil summarises its intention neatly in its first act. It’s 1886 in Cornwall and a growing family are…

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<strong>Princess Pictures Launches Online Comedy Series ‘Flats’  Set In Fitzroy Community Housing</strong>

<strong>Princess Pictures Launches Online Comedy Series ‘Flats’  Set In Fitzroy Community Housing</strong>

Press Releases Nov 10, 2022 2 min read
Articles slap bang comedy Webseries

PRESS RELEASE Princess Pictures today launched a new short-form comedy series called FLATS, which was supported by Screen Australia through the Online Production Fund. The six-part series stars real…

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Sian Davies and Stef Smith Lead Nominations for 2022 the Australian Directors’ Guild Awards

Sian Davies and Stef Smith Lead Nominations for 2022 the Australian Directors’ Guild Awards

Press Releases Nov 10, 2022 7 min read
Articles

PRESS RELEASE The Australian Directors’ Guild has today announced the nominees for the 2022 ADG Awards. It's a breakthrough year at the Awards for women directors in Australia. Receiving three…

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Black Cockatoo Crisis<br>Comes Into Focus In Documentary Film

Black Cockatoo Crisis<br>Comes Into Focus In Documentary Film

Press Releases Nov 7, 2022 2 min read
Articles australian film documentary

PRESS RELEASE A new independent documentary film will shine a light on the extinction canyon facing Western Australia's three south-west black cockatoo species. Black Cockatoo Crisis, distribute…

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