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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…
How to Please a Woman is one of the most refreshing, entertaining, and exciting Australian films to arrive in recent years. Jam packed full of joy and entertainment, Renee Webster’s feature film debut…
Allan Clarke is a Muruwari and Gomeroi man who has made a career as an investigative journalist. His work on the podcast series Blood on the Tracks won him a Walkley award alongside Yale Macgillivray.…
Aussie sci-fi short Bunker: The Last Fleet will have its domestic premiere at the St Kilda Film Festival in June. The screening kicks off a packed tour of the international festival circuit for the fi…
After impressive turns in notable Australian shows and films like The Kettering Incident, Balibo and The Tracker, Damon Gameau’s move towards being an activist documentarian has been one of the most e…
Diana Paez is an emerging filmmaker in Australia, and with her first feature documentary Nuestras Voces (Our Voices) she helps bring the stories of migrant and refugees from Spanish-speaking communiti…
With over 40 documentaries to her name, it’s clear that like Aboriginal filmmaker, Bill Onus, Lilias Fraser is a legend in her own right who has been forgotten by time and the history books. Cinematog…
James Vaughan’s directorial debut Friends and Strangers has been immediately embraced by the international film community, with the film receiving nominations for Best New Film at the Beijing Internat…
As Kenji says on Iron Chef, ‘bang a gong, we are on’. It’s election time folks. To help get you into the election campaign mood, here are five documentaries that focus on aspects of Australian polit…
It’s no secret that, like a lot of the Aussie film community, we at The Curb are very fond of Ben Mendelsohn. From his onscreen intensity and vulnerability to his offscreen shenanigans with meat pies…
Director and producer Sonya Pemberton is one of Australia’s hardest working science-focused filmmakers. From her award-winning work on ABC’s Catalyst to working as director on science-backed films lik…
It’s not hyperbole to say I’m a little bit obsessed with the new Courtney Barnett documentary Anonymous Club. Directed by Barnett’s friend Danny Cohen, this is not your typical music-doc, with Barnett…