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Within the space of almost two minutes, Jelena Sinik and Nicolette Axiak take viewers on an emotional journey of the impact of isolation in their powerful animated short film 101 Days of Lockdown, whi…
Sam Rogers rollercoaster ride of a web series Discontent is a short-form look at a group of millennials linked to one another through their phones and social media. With a rip-roaring level of comedy,…
Taryn Brumfitt’s 2016 documentary Embrace helped show women of the world the way to embrace a body-positive message, and with the utterly essential 2022 documentary Embrace Kids, she takes that same m…
Filmmaker Andréas Giannopoulos’ short film Friends Of Mine won him the prestigious award of Best Direction in a Student Film at the 2021 Australian Directors Guild awards. Made as part of his Masters…
Filmmaker Granaz Moussavi’s latest film When Pomegranates Howl is a powerful ode to the great child-focused films of the 1980s, paying homage to the aesthetic of filmmakers like Abbas Kiarostami and A…
Sophie Hyde’s work as a filmmaker has gone from strength to strength with a body of work in short form documentaries and fiction films before moving into feature films with the highly acclaimed drama…
Sara Kern’s masterful family drama Moja Vesna is wrapped around an engaging and powerful central performance from newcomer Loti Kovačič. Lev Predan Kowarski’s cinematography embraces all the perfomers…
There are precious few minds who know as much about Australian cinema as Mark Hartley does. His pivotal and vital documentary Not Quite Hollywood inspired a new generation of filmmakers to pay homage…
Amiel Courtin-Wilson’s work as a filmmaker consistently operates in the realm of the emotional, presenting the rawness and reality of humanity with a stark honesty like few other filmmakers. From his…
In Heather Rose’s Bruny, the main protagonist, Astrid Coleman, asks herself amidst the aftermath of a destructive event: “Why are Tasmanians so good at protesting?” Within Kasimir Burgess’ monumentall…
Alena Lodkina’s second feature film Petrol had its domestic launch at the Melbourne International Film Festival alongside a wealth of other Australian films that presented the Melbournian landscape on…
Macario De Souza is a musician and filmmaker, and with his new film 6 Festivals, he manages to blend the two worlds together to create an ode to youth culture, Aussie music, the c-bomb, and friendship…