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Brodie Poole’s documentary General Hercules portrays the vibrant personality of the Western Australian mining town Kalgoorlie as it undergoes the 2019 mayoral election campaign. Hot in the thick of th…
Set during the 2019 Kalgoorlie-Boulder Mayoral election, General Hercules positions the titular John ‘General Hercules’ Katahanas as the David to the incumbent Mayor John Bowler’s Goliath. The regular…
Director Simon Target heads to the country with his latest film, Warrawong… the windy place on the hill, and explores the notion of what life on a farm is like in modern Australia. Following Sue and B…
The 69th Sydney Film Festival is back to its rightful June climate of cold sunlight and freezing temperatures, back to the unbelievably ornate State Theatre and the various venues on either side of th…
Shaunak Sen's film All That Breathes premiered this January at the Sundance Film Festival and promptly scored the Grand Jury Prize for documentaries. In May 2022, only a few weeks ago, it screened…
Through his work as a director, Luke Cornish shows a growing curiosity and interest in the world around him, making his interest in the street dance scene in Sydney the perfect subject for his feature…
This July, we will celebrate the connection between filmmakers, films and audiences and the lure of documentary storytelling at the 2022 Castlemaine Documentary Festival (C-Doc) in the heart of regional…
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.…
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…
Gabriel Shipton is the producer of Ben Lawrence’s Ithaka. He is also the son of the films subject, John Shipton, and brother of the figure at the center of the film: Julian Assange. Filmed during 201…