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For regular readers of the Curb..., you'll no doubt be familiar with the admiration and respect that I have for Laneikka Denne and the cohort of filmmakers and storytellers they've worked with…
Stop Talking Shit to Siri, You Fool. “What are you thinking?!” Surely you realise all these devices are listening. Everything you say, including the names you call them, is being stored somewhere. A…
The Short film that didn’t quit! Written and directed by emerging filmmaker and actor Finn Middleton, Acid Amorè is a short comedy that explores the anxieties of love, after a boy receives a potentia…
The Circus Lion follows Samvel, a young wrestler from Western Sydney, who believes leaving his hometown is the only way to escape the weight of his grief. But as he runs from his pain, he discovers th…
Whether it be loneliness, solitude, finding sanctuary in a stifled relationship or waiting for a takeaway meal, or maybe one of the most precious things of all, the comfort in creating for ones self,…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. Daniel Bibby's short film Half Past Midnight follows two strangers - Harp…
PRESS RELEASE Over (or how to save the world), an Australian comedy short film co-directed by Duncan Ragg and Anna Phillips, has been selected to premiere at the celebrated ‘Dances With Films’ festiv…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. There's a delirious level of dark comedy that thrives in the new short fi…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. Take a moment to think about the last time you saw in a film a man write anot…
Writer, director, producer, collaborator Tanya Modini has received her second Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) award nomination for her short film And the Ocean Agreed. This no…
Touch is a futuristic short film set ‘five minutes in the future’ which tells the story of Esme (Rebecca Leafe), a woman who is seeking therapy from an android named Theo (Meraj Ahamed). It’s written…
PRESS RELEASE Short film ‘EVIE’ has its online premiere on the selective Youtube channel OMELETO, home of the worlds best short films. Set in the Wheatbelt of Western Australia the film is a suspens…