Sophia Wright-Mendelsohn on sharpening her claws in Penny Lane is Dead
We've all seen, or we've all met, a Kat.…
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Kristen Stewart and Imogen Poots on The Chronology of Water and embodied memories
Lidia does describe immediately that this experience that we're about to receive is a gift from her. It feels literary right off the bat and it's chaotic and nonlinear and fractured.…
Bill Skarsgård on Building a Live Wire Performance in Dead Man’s Wire
I could speak fluent Tony when we were shooting so things would just come and a lot of stuff was improvised, and I always love to sort of surprise myself when I’m filming.…
Madeline Sunshine on being loud, big, and expressive and the realisation of adulthood in Daddy’s Little Meatball
Maddie Sunshine is a creative force who knows exactly what she wants to do as an artist. When she’s not busy setting TikTok afire, she’s acting in award winning short films like Yael Grunseit’s superb…
Internal Worlds: Jessica Sofarnos on exploring life, grief, and living in Australian cinema
There’s a calm, lived-in nature to Jess Sofarnos’ films, one where she holds a mirror up to herself, reflecting emotions and experiences that are familiar and relatable, yet rarely seen in Australian…
Visar Morina on his devastating Kosovar drama Shame and Money
My biggest challenge was to create a shift. To start with a social environment, and basically to examine what it does to the people offering themselves every day and being treated like they are treated.…
Adrian Chiarella on the real-world horrors that inspired Leviticus
The film was made because I feel like a lot of the progress we have made in the last couple of decades has really regressed lately…
David West on breaking cinema with the hyper independent Lint
Lint is the first feature film from Boorloo-Perth creative David West. It's a hyper independent West Aussie film about Iris (Melissa Coci) and Susan (Courtney Swartz), colleagues who work at an en…
A Return of the Curb Podcast
Kaya, wanjoo, hello, welcome. It’s been a while folks. After some months away from the world of the Curb, I’m finally returning to clear the backlog of interviews and discussions that have been…
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.…
Astonishing Grace: James J. Robinson on his stunning debut film First Light
It is a really personal story, because every single character within the film is like a part of myself that is kind of in constant argument with itself.…
Storyteller Miski Omar on bringing Somali-Australian stories to life on screen in the short film Button Pusher
Storyteller Miski Omar is a multidisciplinary artist whose creative work includes writing and filmmaking, allowing her work as a speech pathologist to inform her exploration of the intricacies of comm…