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The 2026 Australian Film Challenge Check In
We’ve just hit the halfway point of 2026, so it’s a good time to check in on the 2026 Australian Film Challenge. For those keeping track, this is a challenge thrown out to the world to encourage folk…
Fantasia 30 showcases some Australian bangers and much more
The 30th Edition of the Fantasia International Film Festival is set for July 16 — August 2 in Montreal. This year sees some extremely exciting world premieres plus a solid contingent of Australian features and shorts.…
Hal Kirkland on his his sci-fi comedy Please and Thank You
Stop Talking Shit to Siri, You Fool. “What are you thinking?!” Surely you realise all these devices are listening. Everything you say, including the names you call them, is being stored somewhere. A…
“Australia. Find out who you are, and you’ll know how to love somebody else.” - Asian-Australian Memories of Film, Identity and Belonging
In 1983 Hungarian-Australian director Carl Schultz adapted Sumner Locke Elliott’s award-winning novel Careful, He Might Hear You into a film Australia itself has largely forgotten. Set in Depression-e…
Filmmaker Xavier Coy on his Aussie battler film Unremarkable
Sydney’s most unremarkable man has a story to tell. He just doesn’t know it yet. A man whose life has looked like failure after failure, always offset by optimism. Unremarkable is the next chapter in…
Matthew Higgs on bring his debut short film Once Ethereal to life
A pulsing red glow slowly illuminating a rundown motel bedroom. A couple, physically close, yet so emotionally distant from one another. Once Ethereal follows a young couple, Ollie and Liv, through…
Mike Retter on Pete Williams' Emotion is Dead
This essay was original published on Pure Shit Australian Cinema and is written by Mike Retter. Mike Retter is a film director, of the indie feature Youth On The March, creator of the zine "Ci…
David Cronenberg Embraces AI in His New Film, The Shrouds
This article was original published in 2024. Few filmmakers have explored the human condition through technology and biology as David Cronenberg. Long a fan of blending experimental technology with t…
Is the future of the forests being foretold? The Message of the Lyrebird echoes the answer
A new Australian one-hour documentary The Message of the Lyrebird showcases the mimicry abilities of lyrebirds, including the possible impact of human encroachment on their songs.…
We want to know what your favourite Australian film of 2025 is
Hi folks, I hope you're keeping safe and sane in these last few days before Christmas. I'm looking forward to catching up on some of the Australian films I've missed from this year befor…
It Doesn't Always Have to Be That Deep You Know
I’ve been thinking about the opening sequence of Materialists, the so-called “romantic comedy” from Celine Song, director of the Oscar-nominated Past Lives. Her follow-up, which stars Dakota Johnson,…