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Tuesday Tuesday director Lianne Mackessy on honouring the lives of people living with dementia in her short film

Tuesday Tuesday director Lianne Mackessy on honouring the lives of people living with dementia in her short film

Andrew F Peirce Jan 29, 2026 1 min read
Interviews Podcasts Lianne Mackessy Peter Phelps Jillian Nguyen Short Films Flickerfest

Lianne Mackessy is a multi-hyphenate creative whose work spans from acting in front of the camera in films like 2025's Smoke, to writing and directing her own work, like her 2026 drama shor…

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Addition Director Marcelle Lunam and lead Teresa Palmer on bringing Toni Jordan’s book to life on screen

Addition Director Marcelle Lunam and lead Teresa Palmer on bringing Toni Jordan’s book to life on screen

Nadine Whitney Jan 29, 2026 1 min read
Interviews Podcasts Teresa Palmer Addition Marcelle Lunam

Addition is the latest film from director Marcelle Lunam and actor Teresa Palmer. It's a screen adaptation of the novel by Toni Jordan, telling the story of Grace, a woman who counts everyt…

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Sentiments with Value: Stellan Skarsgård on Sentimental Value

Sentiments with Value: Stellan Skarsgård on Sentimental Value

Nadine Whitney Jan 28, 2026 1 min read
Interviews Podcasts Stellan Skarsgard Sentimental Value

Stellan Skarsgård as Gustav Borg in Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value is a man who is searching for connection with the two daughters, Nora (Renate Reinsve) and Agnes (Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas) h…

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Nina Buxton on bringing stories about coercive control to life on screen with her short film Bubba

Nina Buxton on bringing stories about coercive control to life on screen with her short film Bubba

Andrew F Peirce Jan 28, 2026 15 min read
Interviews australian film Short Films Flickerfest Nina Buxton Bubba

Nina Buxton is a storyteller who has worked in films and TV. On the TV front, she’s been the director behind shows like The InBESTigators, Paper Dolls, and Planet Lulin, light, fun fare, while on the…

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Wagner Moura on Capitalism and Crime in The Secret Agent

Wagner Moura on Capitalism and Crime in The Secret Agent

Nadine Whitney Jan 22, 2026 2 min read
Interviews Wagner Moura The Secret Agent

Nadine Whitney spoke with Wagner Moura about Brazil’s past and present and the timeliness of The Secret Agent in the face of dictatorships and how they emerge and are sustained by wealth.…

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Flickerfest Festival Director Bronwyn Kidd on 35 years of supporting local and international short films

Flickerfest Festival Director Bronwyn Kidd on 35 years of supporting local and international short films

Andrew F Peirce Jan 22, 2026 5 min read
Interviews Flickerfest Bronwyn Kidd

This summer, Flickerfest, Australia’s largest Short Film Competition and the only one with Academy® Qualification and BAFTA recognition, will once again grace our shores, rolling out the red carpet at…

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Primate delivers with rabid chimp savagery and viscous visceral viciousness

Primate delivers with rabid chimp savagery and viscous visceral viciousness

Nadine Whitney Jan 21, 2026 3 min read
Reviews Primate Johannes Roberts Animals attack

Roberts and co-scribe Ernest Riera haven’t gone in for cohesive and logical narrative, they’ve gone for rabid chimp savagery and viscous visceral viciousness.…

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Is the future of the forests being foretold? The Message of the Lyrebird echoes the answer

Is the future of the forests being foretold? The Message of the Lyrebird echoes the answer

Guest Author Jan 19, 2026 3 min read
Articles

A new Australian one-hour documentary The Message of the Lyrebird showcases the mimicry abilities of lyrebirds, including the possible impact of human encroachment on their songs.…

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Óliver Laxe & Kanding Ray on the sonic tension of Sirāt

Óliver Laxe & Kanding Ray on the sonic tension of Sirāt

Andrew F Peirce Jan 19, 2026 2 min read
Interviews Podcasts Sirāt Óliver Laxe Cannes Film Festival Kanding Ray

In the following interviews, Nadine Whitney talks to director Óliver Laxe about the landscape and use of music in the film, while in the second interview, Andrew F Peirce talks to composer Kanding Ray about building that sonic profile for the film.…

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Troy Cassar-Daley on the importance of inviting audiences into his childhood home in A Journey Between the Fires

Troy Cassar-Daley on the importance of inviting audiences into his childhood home in A Journey Between the Fires

Andrew F Peirce Jan 18, 2026 11 min read
Interviews SBS on Demand SBS movie Troy Cassar-Daley australian documentary Documentaries Belinda Miller

Troy Cassar-Daley one of Australia’s finest country music songwriters and musicians. He’s a familiar face and voice across the nation, with supporters getting to know him through his music and lyrics.…

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The Secret Agent double pass giveaway

The Secret Agent double pass giveaway

the Curb Jan 16, 2026 1 min read
Giveaway

The Secret Agent is the latest film by award-winning Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho. Awarded three major Cannes prizes, this explosive political thriller races through Brazil’s 1977 Carnival…

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Pradip Kurbah: Future, Tense

Pradip Kurbah: Future, Tense

Virat Nehru Jan 16, 2026 8 min read
Interviews Kolkata International Film Festival Indian cinema The Elysian Field Pradip Kurbah

Set against the backdrop of a dystopian future where India is celebrating 100 years since independence in 1947, Indian National Award-winning filmmaker Pradip Kurbah’s drama Ha Lyngkha Bneng (The Elysian Field, 2025) probes what kind of tomorrow that will be.…

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