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Accomplished Melbourne stage director Peter Blackburn has worked on some of the best loved plays in contemporary Australian theatre. When Melbourne went into lockdown he didn’t let the lack of a live…
Powered by JustWatch Nathan Phillips is a man who’s battled it all: from a maniac in the outback in Wolf Creek, to raging cannibals in Dying Breed, to the end of the world in These Final Hours,…
As Melbourne streets empty and the city shuts down, so too many of the creative industries that have given Melbourne the enviable title of Australia’s foremost City of the Arts. COVID-19 has pushed cr…
I was halfway through The Plastic House before I realised there hadn’t actually been any dialogue yet. The last time I watched a documentary like this, I was not a fan, but with this documentary, I fo…
Le Miroir is a visual delight of a short film, one that shows a talented director on the rise. In celebration of the news that Le Miroir will be screening at Western Australia's grand Cinefest Oz…
Oscar nominee Judith Ehrlich's documentary, The Boys Who Said NO!, is a fascinating exploration of the protest movement that helped reinforce draft resistance during the Vietnam War era, allow…
Thanks to the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival, I get to interview wonderful people from all around the world who have fascinating stories to tell and beautiful films to share. In this interview…
The short is that The Walrus and the Whistleblower is interesting. The 2020 documentary which is directed by Nathalie Bibeau follows former ‘Marineland’ trainer Phil Demers as he tries to rescue a Wa…
Batman & Me follows Darren Maxwell. Darren seems like a good bloke, an average Joe who works hard and lives a peaceful life. He’s made some short films and been on family feud. But what is most i…
Wongar, the feature documentary that follows controversial author Sreten Bozic aka B. Wongar is now streaming at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival. Director Andrijana Stojkovic talks about her e…
Last year I interviewed Miranda Taspsell before going on to catch the Top End Wedding for a second time at the Adelaide Film Festival. The film was great, but one performance in particular stuck with…
In early 2020, when Australia was in the midst of some of the most horrific fires it has ever seen, the ABC’s Q&A, doing what Q&A does, took advantage of the situation and lined up a panel of…