Like all great documentaries, Franklin goes deep. At its core, it’s a film about the epic seven-year campaign to save Tasmania’s World Heritage-listed Franklin River and the importance of environmental protection, but it also encompasses the intergenerational journey of Oliver Cassidy and his father Mike, while also being a story of Oliver’s personal transformation and self discovery…
While on a camping trip, Thomas’ only daughter, Lara, is killed by a logging truck in a hit-and-run accident for which the driver, Luke, serves a prison sentence. Stricken with grief, Thomas sheds his urban life and his identity, and moves to the remote town where Lara was killed. There he takes on a new…
Matt Nable’s performance in the 2012 mini-series Bikie Wars: Brothers in Arms gave us our first real taste of the ex-rugby leaguer’s impressive acting abilities. While he’s been equally as good as a supporting character in films like The Turning and Son of a Gun, it’s his lead performance as Thomas in Fell that cements…
Hugh Sullivan’s The Infinite Man will open this year’s Darwin International Film Festival. One of the finest films to come out of Australian in the last couple of years, the time-travel comedy will screen on Wednesday, 17 September at 7.15pm. Another Australian film to feature as part of the festival will be Fell. Kasimir Burgess’…
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