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Tuesday
Mar162021

BLOG / OUR DEFINITIVE DOZEN FROM SWIFF 2021

Despite the COVID-dictated shift from mid-summer to mid-autumn, SWIFF 2021 organisers Kate and Dave offers a typicaly red-hot selection of great global cinema (Click here)  

Tuesday
Mar162021

REVIEWS / THEN CAME YOU

Craig Ferguson finds an all-too-rare bigscreen vehicle for his rogueish charm opposite Kathie Lee Gifford in Then Came You (Click here)

Tuesday
Mar162021

FEATURES / MANK LEADS NOM COUNT OF DIVERSE 2021 OSCAR CONTENDERS 

David Fincher's ode to old Hollywood dominated the 2021 Academy Award nominations, which generally reflect the industry's progressive, inclusive new direction (Click here)

Tuesday
Feb232021

FEATURES / LIVE: THE LISA CHARLOTTE FRIEDRICH INTERVIEW

No one involved, least of all debutant director Lisa Charlotte Friedrich, could envision how much their production, the speculative drama LIVE, would mirror the social change we all experienced in 2020 (Click here

Tuesday
Feb232021

FEATURES / PREVIEW: 2021 OCEAN FILM FESTIVAL

World cinema's annual celebration of the briny deep in all its forms and functions, Australia's own Ocean Film Festival, launches its 2021 season this week (Click here).

Sunday
Feb142021

REVIEWS / FRIENDS AND STRANGERS

The World Premiere at IFFR of James Vaughans' Emerald City drama Friends and Strangers (featuring Emma Diaz, left) announces the arrival of a talented new Australian auteur (Click here)

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)