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Diana Paez is an emerging filmmaker in Australia, and with her first feature documentary Nuestras Voces (Our Voices) she helps bring the stories of migrant and refugees from Spanish-speaking communiti…
With over 40 documentaries to her name, it’s clear that like Aboriginal filmmaker, Bill Onus, Lilias Fraser is a legend in her own right who has been forgotten by time and the history books. Cinematog…
Gabriel Shipton is the producer of Ben Lawrence’s Ithaka. He is also the son of the films subject, John Shipton, and brother of the figure at the center of the film: Julian Assange. Filmed during 201…
James Vaughan’s directorial debut Friends and Strangers has been immediately embraced by the international film community, with the film receiving nominations for Best New Film at the Beijing Internat…
Ablaze is the essential documentary about Yorta Yorta and Wiradjuri filmmaker Bill Onus and the untold history of his work in Australian film. Lost films and hidden history are rediscovered and brough…
Director and producer Sonya Pemberton is one of Australia’s hardest working science-focused filmmakers. From her award-winning work on ABC’s Catalyst to working as director on science-backed films lik…
Patrick Marlborough (they/them) is a writer, a comedian, a Rove stan, and bipolar autistic whose new show Killing Rove recently played to sold out audiences at Perth’s Fringe Festival. Before heading…
Making its world debut at the 2021/22 Perth International Arts Festival Lotterywest Films line-up is Renée Webster’s uproarious and joyful comedy How to Please a Woman. With its sessions instantly sel…
It’s not hyperbole to say I’m a little bit obsessed with the new Courtney Barnett documentary Anonymous Club. Directed by Barnett’s friend Danny Cohen, this is not your typical music-doc, with Barnett…
Available to Watch Here: Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Filmmaker Ivan Sen is a one-man shop, writing, directing, shooting, scoring his films fr…
Blind Ambition is the new film from co-directors Warwick Ross and Robert Coe. It follows the journey of Zimbabwean refugees Joseph, Tinashe, Marlvin and Pardon as they start a new life in South Africa…
Oscar winner Eva Orner’s filmography is made up of a deep catalogue of activist films, from the asylum seeker focused Chasing Asylum to her work as producer on Alex Gibney’s American military focused…