Mat de Koning’s Meal Tickets will open this year’s Sydney Indie Film Festival. Sydneysiders and visitors to the Australian capital will be able to enjoy the coming-of-age Australian rockumentary at the festival on Monday, October 10 which will include a Q&A with producers Brooke Silcox and Dave Kavanagh. Tickets are free and all donations go to help the Free…
Academy Award® winning filmmaker Eva Orner will join President of the Australian Human Rights Commission, Professor Gillian Triggs, crusading lawyer Julian Burnside and more for Q&As following a number of special event screenings of Chasing Asylum nationally. Chasing Asylum exposes the real impact of Australia’s offshore detention policies and explores how ‘The Lucky Country’ became a…
Controversial Australian film Chasing Asylum will hit local screens from 5 May at the Human Rights Arts & Film Festival in Melbourne. This marks the beginning of a premiere season visiting each capital city. From Academy Award® winning Eva Orner (Producer, Taxi To The Dark Side; Director, The Network), Chasing Asylum reveals the personal impact of sending…
For the nearly two million Australian’s traveling on trains everyday, it’s a very common occurrence: a delay. But what might surprise commuters is nearly every day, somewhere in Australia, the delay is caused by a rail fatality. There are far reaching consequences not only for the casualty and their families but also for a more…
One of the most intriguing films to come out of this year’s Revelation Perth International Film Festival was the weird yet remarkable Alvin’s Harmonious World of Opposites. The film is a must see for fans of independent cinema. Randwick Ritz Cinema will be hosting a special Q&A screening of the film with director Platon Theodoris and his…
“When I started doing damage to others, bringing others down and really disappointing people that I love, that’s when I kind of clued into the fact that I was living a deeply unsavoury life.” Every time I ask any filmmaker the question, the answer is almost always the same, “The advertising budget is virtually non-existent.” Surely though, for a…
