Heretica: Closing the visibility gap and opening up opportunities
Heretica is built to close the visibility gap, and open up opportunities to connect and create with other filmmakers and creatives, those who didn’t have access to before. 0:0…
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Island nation Nauru debuts its first film ever, Far End of the Sea; in conversation with filmmakers
Zijian Qi, Managing Editor of China's Xinhua News Agency Sydney Bureau writes for the Curb about Nauru's debut film Far End of the Sea by director Matthew Holmes and writer Jamie Coffa.…
Filmmaker Matthew J. Thompson on his Melbourne International Comedy Festival Audience Choice Award winning short film “I Fell in Love with My Sleep Paralysis Demon”
What happens when Melbourne’s biggest commitment-phobe meets its most emotionally unavailable bachelor, who also happens to be a literal demon? I Fell in Love with My Sleep Paralysis Demon follows Sar…
Benn Wintle on the Perth filmmaking community and his debut feature Anemoia
Anemoia is my debut feature film, a story pulsing with emotions, strung by the quiet ache of lives half in reality and half in dreams. It follows Casey, a restless romantic, chasing a world that feels…
Acid Amorè Turns Heartbreak Into a Psychedelic Spiral
The Short film that didn’t quit! Written and directed by emerging filmmaker and actor Finn Middleton, Acid Amorè is a short comedy that explores the anxieties of love, after a boy receives a potentia…
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…
Behind the Scenes of Unseen Enemy: The Making of an Australian Action Thriller
Guest article by Artom Simin Unseen Enemy began as a small, character-driven mystery and grew into one of the most ambitious independent action films made in Australia in recent years. The production…
Echoes Emerges as a Contender for the 2026 AACTA Awards
Writer-Director-Producer Azita Damandan writes about their short film Echoes, now in contention for the 2026 AACTA Awards. A Story of Exile, Memory, and Resistance Lyrical, haunting, and deeply res…