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A Love Letter to the Australian Films of 2021 and an Announcement for the Future

Andrew F Peirce Dec 24, 2021 13 min read

They say that limitation breeds creativity. They’re not wrong. A year ago, I made the decision that from January 2020 onwards, I would only write reviews for Australian films. After a health scare th…

High Ground and The Dry Stars Amongst the Casting Guild of Australia's Rising Stars List for 2021

Press Releases Nov 10, 2021 3 min read

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The Casting Guild of Australia has today crowned Australia’s top emerging talent of 2021, revealing its 7th annual list of CGA Rising Stars. Highlighting up to ten extraordinary actors with the poten…

Australian Stories Are Back in Force with the 2021 AACTA Award Nominations

Andrew F Peirce Oct 31, 2021 13 min read

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A decade after relaunching the AFI (Australian Film Institute) awards under a new banner, the AACTA (Australia Academy Cinema Television Arts) awards have managed to deliver a slate of Best Film nomin…

High Ground Review - A Frightfully Tense Meat Pie Western Steeped in Indigenous Australian History

Andrew F Peirce Dec 30, 2020 10 min read

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Powered by JustWatch The emerging Indigenous Australian New Wave film movement has seen two monumental films about Indigenous Australian history written and told from non-Indigenous perspectives…