Jack Thompson

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High Ground Review - A Frightfully Tense Meat Pie Western Steeped in Indigenous Australian History

High Ground Review - A Frightfully Tense Meat Pie Western Steeped in Indigenous Australian History

Andrew F Peirce 10 min read
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Powered by JustWatch The emerging Indigenous Australian New Wave film movement has seen two monumental films about Indigenous Australian history written and told from non-Indigenous perspectives…

Grey Dollars - Where Are the Aussie Films for Ageing Audiences?

Andrew F Peirce 6 min read
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In the latest round of Screen Australia funding, an interesting variety of films that cover the field of diversity in a great way. There's the new Jocelyn Moorhouse film, Agaat, about a young blac…