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PRESS RELEASE In a clean sweep for South Australian filmmakers, the Adelaide Film Festival (AFF) has announced the winners of the AFF 2024 Audience Awards. Lesbian Space Princess has taken out the F…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. Welcome to a special Adelaide Film Festival round up discussi…
The contemporary antipodean Gothic is an underexplored and underutilised genre. Australian and New Zealand filmmakers make excellent horror films, wonderful outback noirs, blistering inner city dramas…
“Vissi d'arte, vissi d'amore.” Maria the final film in Pablo Larraín’s trilogy of twentieth century iconic women proves one thing about the Chilean director: he knows how to cast a leading la…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. In the heart of Adelaide, a movement is changing the conversa…
“If you listen. You accept.” Jacques Audiard’s genre mixing musical rises from the streets of Mexico with a blistering rage. Sinners, saints, and martyrs merge in a struggle for salvation – a moment…
Black Box Diaries screens at the Adelaide Film Festival on 26 & 30 October Shiori Itō’s story is not just one of resilience; it’s an unflinching act of courage that left me shaken, inspired, and…
A New Kind of Wilderness screens at the Adelaide Film Festival on 26 & 29 October 2024. “This place has everything” – Falk “Except pet whales.” – Ulv Maria Vatne wrote on her blog WILD + FREE “……
Documentarian Gabrielle Brady immerses herself in the act of collaborative storytelling, working alongside her subjects to bring their truth to life in an act of radical hybrid filmmaking. In her late…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. Director Samuel Van Grinsven returns to our screens with his…
Kate Blackmore's feature length film debut, Make It Look Real, navigates the intricacies of utilising an intimacy coordinator on the set of a film. Kate follows intimacy coordinator Claire Warden…
Ani (Mikey Madison) works at The Headquarters in Manhattan, a large adult club with exotic dancers, private rooms, and huge bar tabs. Sean Baker follows Ani around what appears to be an average night…