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A movie about the events leading up to the Port Arthur massacre in 1996 has been accepted into competition at the Cannes Film Festival, becoming the first Australian movie in a decade to be chosen.
Snowtown and
True History of the Kelly Gang – stars American actor Caleb Landry Jones in the lead role of an unnamed loner who goes on a mass shooting rampage.
American actor Caleb Landry Jones plays a disturbed young man who becomes a mass murderer in Nitram, a movie about the Port Arthur massacre from writer Shaun Grant and director Justin Kurzel.
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Though clearly based on the events at the convict prison historic site in Tasmania in April 1996, the film does not mention the killer by name, in line with a growing movement around the world to deny perpetrators of such atrocities the recognition they desire.
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Pivot Pictures has acquired Jayden Stevens unlikely and utterly fascinating black comedy “A Family” for a local Aussie release.
A wonderfully absurdist black comedy, ”A Family” is the story of Emerson, a man living in lonely isolation who seeks emotional refuge in the organising and documenting of family moments using low-grade impersonators. But when his fake sister becomes inspired to follow his method, their relationship struggles between the forged and the genuine.
“I never imagined when writing our script that less than a year later, I would be calling action on a cold beach in Ukraine, while a grown man with a blonde wig who spoke no English tossed a Frisbee,” says writer/director/producer Jayden Stevens.
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The Moogai, which is screening at St Kilda Film Festival.
Filmmaker Jon Bell lives on Bundjalung country in Casino, northern NSW. Bell’s career work – which includes the TV dramas
Redfern Now and
The Gods of Wheat Street – has largely focused on the contemporary experiences of Australia’s Indigenous people.
Bell’s latest project, The Moogai, is a 15-minute psychological horror film, which he wrote and directed. The action centres on a young Indigenous couple, Sarah and Fergus, and their newborn baby, Jacob.
Shortly after bringing Jacob home from hospital, Sarah (played by Shari Sebbens) starts having visions of a young Blak girl who tells her that “he’s watching”. “
Australian CEO and ‘dreamer’ Fabian Dattner, leads an international group of 76 female scientists on an Antarctic voyage designed to transform them “into the sort of leaders they want to be.”
ABC TV Plus tonight screening documentary film
The Leadership which screened at both the Sydney Film Festival and Melbourne International Film Festival.
The Leadership is an independent documentary by award winning director Ili Baré and produced by Bunya Productions, which focuses on the first Homeward Bound program and the systemic inequalities for women in STEMM.
Filmed in 2016, The Leadership follows the journey of 76 women in STEMM and 10 leadership facilitators as they participate in the inaugural Homeward Bound program, culminating in a 21-day voyage from Argentina to Antarctica and back. Through telling the stories of several women on board, the film addresses the need to remove the structural inequalities in STEMM to allow for more women leaders that will in turn create a b