Ex Memoria a horror-drama film that explores sexual trauma, the fragmentation of memory, and the complexity of intimacy through the female gaze is currently in the midst of its crowd-funding campaign. I spoke to Director Devany Greenwood about the film, how her experience shaped the story, and the importance of centring the camera lens on difficult topics.
Read MoreAfter enduring misogynistic taunts and violence from the boys in her town, an eleven-year- old girl revisits a storybook about the sirens of the sea. When she follows an enigmatic figure into the water, she is inspired to take the power she hasn’t been afforded.
Read MoreDirector and CEO of Space Dream Productions Koura Linda jumped at the opportunity to participate in this year’s Easterseals Disability Film Challenge, which gave participants 5 days to write, shoot, and edit a film centred on the theme of Buddy Comedy.
Read MoreThe top 10 highest grossing women directors of all time. Gross takes into account all the films a director has made and how much they took in at the global box office.
Read MoreThe slate from distributors this year is thick with delayed projects pushed back after the SAG-AFTRA and Writers Guild strikes plus a whole host of fresh new titles. Lets take a look at whats releasing in 2024.
Read MoreYou may have heard already but The Marvels is Marvel Studios' worst-performing film at the box office since they started making movies. With the success of films like Oppenheimer and Barbie in the cinemas it's clear Marvel no longer has the pulling power they used to. But why is that?
Read MoreThe second feature film from award-winning director, writer, actor, and producer Emerald Fennell sucks you in with morbid curiosity. The further it goes the wider that uncomfortable pit in your stomach gets yet your blood pumps with adrenaline urging you to keep watching despite how disgusted you are.
Read MoreWhat is the true extent of the impact and should we be worried that our movies and TV shows are about to disappear? Also, are celebrities helping or making things worse?
Read MoreI had zero expectations walking into the cinemas to see Greta Gerwig’s Barbie. All around me, the question on everybody’s lips was, “Are you going to see the Barbie movie?” The perception of what this film would be fell into two categories; blindly optimistic and apathetically judgmental but I ended up pleasantly surprised by the movie we got.
Read MoreNow it’s probably not as big as Cannes or Sundance but the Sydney Film Festival is a crucial industry event for the Australian film industry in particular.
Read MoreRoman Polanski, David Fincher, Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock. What do all these names have in common? Well, they are all male directors that appear on film studies curriculum. Alongside them is a plethora of recognisable names whose films have subsequently been dubbed classics, but I’ll give you one guess at how many of them are women.
Read MoreThe Bechdel Test is such a generalised lens through which to view a film that I wonder if we should really be using it in the modern age of feminism.
Read MoreI chat with filmmaker and host of the Filmmaking (Actually) podcast Koura Linda about the pros and cons of making your film independently or taking it to a studio.
Read MoreThere are a lot of great films about the LGBT experience directed by men, but even in the LGBT film space female and non-binary (NB) directors are still heavily underrepresented. So I decided to watch 10 films directed by women and NB filmmakers this world pride.
Read MoreRational Creatures is a modern retelling of Jane Austen's Persuasion with a bisexual Latina lead and a whole cast of inclusive characters created by a team of talented women; Ayelen Barrios, Hazel Jeffs, Jessamyn Leigh, and Anya Steiner.
Read MoreThis week’s featured filmmaker Nicola Rose and her feature film debut Goodbye Petrushka is a romantic comedy that aims to showcase women who are messy, silly and flawed individuals; as they are in real life.
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