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Thursday
Feb112021

INDUSTRY / FIVE AUSTRALIAN FILMMAKERS SECURE SXSW SLOTS

Three women filmmakers and works steeped in indigenous culture are headed to SXSW, amongst the five Australian films selected in the 2021 programs (Click here)

Monday
Feb082021

BLOG / IFFR 50 GOES GLOBAL WITH 2021 AWARDS ROSTER 

Films from all corners of the globe are honoured by the various IFFR juries in Rotterdam overnight (Click here)

Friday
Feb052021

WORLD CINEMA / PREVIEW: 2021 ALLIANCE FRANCAIS FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL

New films from Isabelle Huppert, Romain Duris, Quentin Dupieux, Omar Sy and Gerard Depardieu, plus a restored classic from French cinema's defining moment, are just a fraction of what's on offer at the 2021 Alliance Francais French Film Festival (Click here)

Friday
Feb052021

INDUSTRY / RON HOWARD, BRIAN GRAZER TO MENTOR OZ CREW ON GOLD COAST SHOOT

Through their talent initiative Impact Creative Systems, Hollywood heavyweights Ron Howard and Brian Grazer will foster below-the-line talent during their Gold Coast shoot of Thirteen Lives (Click here)

Tuesday
Jan192021

FEATURE / DUSTWALKER: THE SANDRA SCIBERRAS INTERVIEW

After three introspective dramas, filmmaker Sandra Sciberras decided she needed to exorcise her urge to make a genre pic. The result - the outback-set alien invasion pic The Dustwalker (Click here)

Friday
Jan152021

REVIEWS / MUSIC

Spokespeople for the ADS community are fired up over singer/choreographer Sia's directorial debut, a drama featuring neurotypical actress Maggie Ziegler as a non-verbal autistic teen (Click here)

Tuesday
Jan122021

REVIEWS / SHORTCUT

Alessio Liguori's monster-movie Shortcut offers just enough narrative ambition to save it from being condemned to 'teen splatter' obscurity (Click here)

Wednesday
Jan062021

HORROR / PREVIEW: 2021 FINAL GIRLS BERLIN FILM FESTIVAL

One of Europe's most vocal supporters of women and non-binary filmmakers is going global come February 2021 (Click here)

Wednesday
Dec232020

INDUSTRY / AUSTRALIAN CYBER-THRILLER LONE WOLF TO BOW AT IFFR

Europe's most progressive major film festival, IFFR will host the World Premiere of Jonathan Ogilvie's future-set surveillance thriller, Lone Wolf, starring Hugo Weaving and Tilda Cobham-Hervey (Click here)

Tuesday
Dec222020

BLOG / SCREEN-SPACE'S BEST & WORST FILMS OF 2020

Even in a year when all around them ground to a halt, filmmakers found the time to make some great and some not-so-great film. Guess which camp Robert Downey Jr.'s Dolittle sits in...? (Click here

Tuesday
Dec222020

FEATURES / COASTAL CRITICS SWOON OVER ‘FIRST COW’, ‘NOMADLAND’, ‘SMALL AXE’

Over two frenzied days of high-brow pondering, critic's bodies in Los Angeles and New York drew some lines in the cinematic sand with regard to who needs considering come Oscar time (Click here

Sunday
Dec202020

INDUSTRY / WOMEN DIRECTORS FLY OZ FLAG AT SUNDANCE 2021

A feature-length documentary, virtual reality project and award-winning short will represent the Australian film sector at the world's biggest indie film celebration (Click here)

Friday
Dec182020

BLOG / VALE MIKE MCPADDEN

Filmmakers, musicians, artists, authors and the fans who love them are mourning the death of one of the loudest advocates for pop culture creativity, with Mike 'McBeardo' McPadden passing away (Click here)

 

Tuesday
Dec152020

FEATURES / THE FLOOD: THE VICTORIA WHARFE MCINTYRE INTERVIEW

A new independent feature from regionally-based director Victoria Wharfe McIntyre presents a version of the Indigenous experience never before seen on our screens (Click here). 

Tuesday
Dec152020

FEATURES / OUR FIVE FAVOURITE SHORTS FROM NOHO CINEFEST 2020

No COVID-dictated move to online sessions was going to stop the North Hollywood Cinefest from presenting the best in global long- and short-form cinema (Click here)