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PRESS RELEASE The 70th Sydney Film Festival has announced the return of accolades to be awarded at the 2023 Festival including the 15th year of the Festival’s Official Competition’s Sydney Film Prize…
PRESS RELEASE The 70th Sydney Film Festival today announced the seventh year of its Screenability program – a program comprised of outstanding films created by filmmakers living with disability. Cur…
There are few directors as essential to the Australasian region as Jane Campion. Perhaps best known for The Piano and The Power of the Dog, for which she has received two Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awa…
Sydney Film Festival director Nashen Moodley reflects; "Since 1954, Sydney Film Festival has brought more than 10,000 films to Australian audiences. Year after year, the Festival continues to be…
One of the absolute standouts of Australian cinema in 2022 has been Back to Back Theatre’s first film: Shadow. Working as an adaptation of the theatre companies celebrated stage production The Shadow…
The central question of cinema is the extent to which it is an authentic representation of reality. With a global pandemic, a war in Europe erupting and the disproportion between rich and poor becomin…
Brodie Poole’s documentary General Hercules portrays the vibrant personality of the Western Australian mining town Kalgoorlie as it undergoes the 2019 mayoral election campaign. Hot in the thick of th…
Set during the 2019 Kalgoorlie-Boulder Mayoral election, General Hercules positions the titular John ‘General Hercules’ Katahanas as the David to the incumbent Mayor John Bowler’s Goliath. The regular…
Writer/Director Craig Boreham is one of the leading filmmakers working in Australian queer cinema right now. His 2016 film Teenage Kicks echoed the work of Ana Kokkinos’s Head On, with Miles Szanto’s…
Director Simon Target heads to the country with his latest film, Warrawong… the windy place on the hill, and explores the notion of what life on a farm is like in modern Australia. Following Sue and B…
Indie filmmaker Rowan Devereux turns his gaze to the trials and tribulations of Sydney’s turbulent rental market with his feature debut Evicted! A Modern Romance, with the newly unemployed Maggie (Ama…
Shaunak Sen's film All That Breathes premiered this January at the Sundance Film Festival and promptly scored the Grand Jury Prize for documentaries. In May 2022, only a few weeks ago, it screened…