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I’m old enough to remember the tail end of the campaign to stop the damming of the Franklin River in Tasmania. In many ways the campaign was the impetus for my burgeoning consciousness of the importan…
Like everyone except the Indigenous people who lived in Naarm, I am an import to Melbourne. I first moved to the city in 1992 and found my spiritual home. There was something so uniquely cosmopolitan…
An interviewer asks Sandra Pankhurst, the subject of Lachlan McLeod’s documentary Clean what she would like to be remembered for. Sandra answers “Being kind, nothing more, nothing less.” After the pub…
Sam Rogers rollercoaster ride of a web series Discontent is a short-form look at a group of millennials linked to one another through their phones and social media. With a rip-roaring level of comedy,…
Taryn Brumfitt’s 2016 documentary Embrace helped show women of the world the way to embrace a body-positive message, and with the utterly essential 2022 documentary Embrace Kids, she takes that same m…
The world is a weird place. Everything is strange. Life. People. All of it. This has never been more apparent than the past few years. The COVID-19 pandemic trapped people in their homes, away from fa…
Sissy, written and directed by Australian duo Hannah Barlow and Kane Senes, is a brutal yet often chillingly funny examination of influencer culture and how much our collective dopamine levels are ele…
PRESS RELEASE A world first program to recruit, train and mentor defence veterans into Australia’s burgeoning film and television industry is being launched as a joint initiative of the highly regard…
PRESS RELEASE The story of Australia’s longest and perhaps most defining war has been kept silent - until now. Over three parts, this ground-breaking documentary series gives voice to the story of Th…
PRESS RELEASE The latest Young Adult feature film from The Steve Jaggi Company, THE CURIOUS CASE OF DOLPHIN BAY, will release in select cinemas across Australia from September 22. A fun, adventure-fi…
PRESS RELEASE Roadshow Films acquires ANZ distribution rights for Nyul Nyul / Yawuru director Jub Clerc’s directorial feature debut, SWEET AS. Described as The Breakfast Club meets the Outback, SWEE…
When the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF), one of the oldest continuing film festivals in the world, announced a mammoth celebration of Melbourne on Film for their 70th anniversary, the jo…