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Renée Brack built a career interviewing everyone from Oscar-winners and scientists to ordinary people and Chopper Read. Now, she has transitioned from putting the spotlight on other people to putting…
Nick Barkla’s The Healing is a calming and powerful documentary about Scott Brodie and the horses he re-trains with the assistance of veterans who are living with PTSD and the impact of trauma on thei…
American-Australian director Jeff Daniels documentary Television Event is a timely reflection on the impact of the pivotal Eighties film The Day After and the way it helped change America’s stance on…
AFI Award winning director Bruce Beresford has a career that ducks and swerves through different genres, from the Ozploitation flick, Money Movers, to war drama, Breaker Morant, to the Best Picture wi…
Australia’s Black Summer of Bushfire has been well documented and dramatized, however few of these stories are produced and relived by the victims themselves. ‘We are Conjola - Our Fire Our Story’, is…
Over the 2019/2020 Australian summer period, the world witnessed some of the worst and most devastating bushfires in modern history. A billion animals died in a traumatic event that the nation is stil…
Director Matthew Morden's film, Wanting to Fly, is screening at the 2021 Melbourne Documentary Film Festival. This fascinating film follow Neil, a man who is seeking to engage with his first exper…
We all have a creative entity within us, but how do we get to that path of creativity? In Roger Ungers documentary, Finding Creativity, he seeks to answer that question by interviewing various creativ…
The Melbourne Documentary Film Festival is always home to a plethora of great and varied documentaries from around the globe. This year, the festival will host the deep and moving documentary, Batoor:…
Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. The Melbourne Documentary Film Festival kicks off its in-person in-cinema screenings on July 21st through to July 31st at the Cinema Nova. S…
Every so often a film comes along that itches your mind in a way that you simply cannot escape. A couple of years ago, I watched the utterly stunning documentary Looby for the Melbourne Documentary Fi…
The lyrics to Beverly Glenn-Copeland’s magnificent song, Ever New, are few, but no less important: Welcome the spring The summer rain Softly turned to sing again Welcome the bud The summer blooming f…