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Documentarian Yaara Bou Melhem expands her approach to collaborative documentary storytelling with her latest feature Yurlu | Country. This essential film follows the final year of the life of A…
Sophie Somerville is an Australian emerging filmmaker whose short films Linda 4 Eva and Peeps made waves at film festivals around the world. Now with her feature film debut Fwends, winner of the Berli…
In this podcast, Nadine Whitney speaks with documentarians Maggie Miles & Trisha Morton-Thomas about the extraordinary documentary Journey Home, David Gulpilil. Journey Home, David Gulpilil is a…
Writer-Director Adrian Ortega's Westgate follows Netta (Sarah Nicolazzo) and her son Julian (Max Nappo) as she embarks on a torturous day of navigating hospitals, family, cultural prejudices, and…
Kathryn Bigelow’s A House of Dynamite tracks the response to an unattributed nuclear warhead that is destined to land on an American city. The film moves in three terrifying segments replaying the sam…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. Aussie genre filmmaking legend Kiah Roache-Turner is back with his latest fli…
“Australia has some great comedy,” says Kyle Marvin. “You guys are doing it right.” “Yeah,” agrees Marvin’s collaborator, Michael Angelo Corvino. “We were really disappointed not to make it over to t…
Bina Bhattacharya is a creative storyteller whose work I've been following for a while now. Her 2017 short film Wild Dances embraced music and cultural identity against the backdrop of Eurovision,…
Lesbian Space Princess is the Australian film of the moment. This Adelaide-made animated film follows Saira (Shabana Azeez) as she traipses across the galaxy to save her ex-Kiki (Bernie Van Tiel) from…
Tina Romero didn’t think she’d follow in her father George A. Romero’s footsteps and make a film about zombies unless she had something to say that took the genre into a new territory. Along with writ…
Producer Tom Phillips is a bit of a mastermind at bringing great comedy together on screen. His work as writer on the excellent series Lucy & D.i.C shows he understands the importance of comedic s…
Julie Pacino’s dark fairytale I Live Here Now is a powerful and complex debut feature that places the audience in the space between dream and nightmare as Rose (Lucy Fry) finds herself in an impossibl…