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Digital Down Under: How The Coronavirus Couldn’t Stop Australia’s Film Festivals

Even if audiences choose to return, will the festivals be there for them, or will we see a paradigmatic shift to these industry events lodging themselves online permanently?

Golden Ear: Taylor Hackford And The Art Of Popular Songs In Cinematic Mediocrity
Golden Ear: Taylor Hackford & The Art Of Pop Songs In Cinematic Mediocrity

As a person who came of age in the 1980s, I was lucky enough to witness some incredible cultural, societal and artistic developments. The fall of the Berlin Wall, for example. Chernobyl.

Are Current Women-Led Films Good Enough?
Are Current Women-Led Blockbusters Good Enough?

The past couple years have sparked seemingly, sudden changes in Hollywood. The #OscarsSoWhite trending this year launched a complete member overhaul in the Academy and the way voting was handled within the membership. The EEOC launched an investigation of the Hollywood’s studio system’s complete neglect of hiring women directors, which has sparked an online movement for women in film, both in front of and behind the scenes.

Beasts of the Southern Wild
The American Southern: The Birth of a Modern Independent Film Genre

“These men who bust their asses work like dogs. And I believe in them, but every day they hurt. They get old, they peel back…

About The (Second) Space Film Renaissance

There had been many films about outer space before 1968, but it was in that year that Stanley Kubrick lit the fuse leading to a powder keg that would explode 9 years later. The influence of 2001: A Space Odyssey is arguably the most influential film ever made.