Two documentaries, JUVIE and Movement at the Station, will receive production funding from The Guardian and Screen Australia under their joint online documentary initiative. The initiative allows Australian filmmakers to reach an international audience via one of the world’s leading English-language news sites, with the documentaries streaming for free on The Guardian’s website later in…
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NFSA Digitally Restores Award-winning Doco Australia Daze
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Award-winning film Australia Daze, which documented the bicentenary of European settlement in Australia, has been digitally restored by the NFSA and will screen in cinemas across the country on 26 – 27 January 2021. Where were you on 26 January 1988? The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA), as part of its NFSA…
Batman and Me – Interview with Michael Wayne
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A big thank you to Michael Wayne for the interview about his documentary Batman and Me which is headed to the Cinequest Film Festival in California
Batman and Me – Interview with Darren “Dags” Maxwell
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A big thank you to Darren “Dags” Maxwell for taking the time to talk about the Documentary Batman and Me which is headed to the Cinequest film festival
The Boys Who Said No – Melbourne Documentary Film Festival 2020
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Director Judith Ehrlich Rated M Score 6/6 Half a century ago, young Americans coming of age watch as President Johnson suddenly launches a war in Vietnam, drafting a thousand men a day to go into combat, and then watch again as the war proves brutal and senseless. Though many find a way out, some decide…
Looby – Melbourne Documentary Film Festival
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Directors Iain Knight and Nick Garner Score 4/6 Looby is the story of what happens when an artist chooses to speak out. For Australian painter Keith Looby, it cost him almost everything. Winner of prestigious art prizes and collected by major galleries at home and abroad, Keith’s addiction to speaking his mind has left a…
Dogs Best Friend – Melbourne Documentary Film Festival
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Director Eryn Wilson Score 3/6 Profile of Jacob Leezak’s Canine Behaviour Expert Dog Psychology Centre, located in outer Sydney, a place where traumatised dogs and traumatised humans can heal one another. Dogs. People like Dogs and people have strong feelings about traumatised and neglected dogs. So, it won’t surprise me if a lot of people…
Wade Jackson Waiting – The Van Duren Story Interview – Melbourne Documentary Film Festival
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A big thank you to Wade Jackson for taking the time to answer some questions about his documentary Waiting – The Van Duren Story which is going to be screened at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival.
New Jack the Ripper Documentary
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One hundred and thirty years ago the most infamous serial killer of all time began his reign of terror in the East End of London. Between August and November 1888, five horrifically violent murders took place in Whitechapel. The victims were all poor, working-class women. A huge manhunt ensued involving hundreds of officers, but Jack…
July 4 Screening of Albatross Documentary at the Randwick Ritz
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NSW Greens MP Justin Field and Greens Federal Senator Peter Whish-Wilson will host a special Plastic Free July screening of the Albatross documentary at the Randwick Ritz Cinema on 4 July. Albatross is a powerful exploration of the impact of our plastic pollution on seabirds. It shows the tragedy of young Albatross on Midway Island…