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Rolling on for another huge year of great content is Australia’s finest documentary film festival – the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival. With a huge wealth of content and guests, with subjects str…
Cultural differences are an intriguing thing. In one country, you can download an app onto your phone to meet a potential soul mate, whereas in another country, you line up on a stage in a shopping ma…
Woodstock at Fifty: A Venue for the End of the World is director Aidan Prewitt's look back at one of the most famous, influential music festivals in the world - Woodstock. Aidan looks at the peace…
In 2018, a report written by Sophie Russell and Chris Cunneen stated that Indigenous Incarceration has increased by 45% in the last decade – that’s from 2008 -2018. We make up under 3% of the populati…
In March 2019, Helen Davidson from The Guardian wrote an alarming article, it was titled “Record Numbers of Australian Wildlife Species Face Imminent Extinction”. Just the title is enough to make you…
One of the joys of watching films for the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival, is that you're inevitably presented with some magical, hidden gem of cinema. It just so happens that the first of man…
Ignorance is bliss has never been so true as it is in Israel Cannan’s documentary Fish out of Water. The documentary centres around two men, Tom Hudson and Pete Fletcher, who make the decision to cros…
Warwick Thornton is a director with an agenda – namely, the agenda to bring Indigenous stories and history to life via cinema. From Samson & Delilah to Sweet Country, he strings a bow that links t…
I know that at the end of the year there is an overwhelming mass of ‘Best of’ lists to work through, so as I gradually work my way up to my ‘Best Films of 2018’ list, I thought I’d throw another selec…
The old myth of riding a kangaroo to school is shot dead in the dark of the night in the opening moments of Kangaroo: A Love-Hate Story. Said kangaroo springs into the air as the bullet pierces its ne…
Poh Lin Lee is a trauma counsellor who lives on Christmas Island with her family. Her job consists of assisting the asylum seekers who have been detained in the detention centre on the remote island.…
Full disclosure - this film will have you crying within the first five minutes. And odds are, you won't stop crying til the credits roll. Not only is Backtrack Boys an immensely powerful film, it&…