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Painting in Pictures: WhaleX Marks the Spot

When Australian production company Painting in Pictures was approached by Elon Musk’s XPrize with a proposition to create a documentary for a Carbon Removal Challenge featuring the WhaleX team, filmmaking duo Kirsty B Carter and Joe Harrison were enthusiastic to get on board.

When Australian production company Painting in Pictures was approached by Elon Musk’s XPrize with a proposition to create a documentary for a Carbon Removal Challenge featuring the WhaleX team, filmmaking duo Kirsty B Carter and Joe Harrison were enthusiastic to get on board.

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Copa 71

In Documentary, Festival, Film Festival, Review, This Week by Dov Kornits

… balances the sport sequences and the social justice elements well – not a typical football doco and yet not a polemic as such.

… balances the sport sequences and the social justice elements well – not a typical football doco and yet not a polemic as such.

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Maxine’s Baby – The Tyler Perry Story

In Documentary, Home, Prime Video, Review, Streaming, Television, This Week by Dov Kornits

“Separate the art from the artist” is a phrase that regularly gets brought up when it comes to good or even great artists who have less-than-ideal lives outside of their work. Not so often with the opposite situation, where a good or even great person has created works that are… let’s be gentle and say “divisive”. Ideally, one shouldn’t have ...

“Separate the art from the artist” is a phrase that regularly gets brought up when it comes to good or even great artists who have less-than-ideal lives outside of their work. Not so often with the opposite situation, where a good or even great person has created works that are… let’s be gentle and say “divisive”. Ideally, one shouldn’t have …

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Box Office Report: 9 – 12 November 2023

Another lacklustre weekend at the box office, led by The Marvels; audiences must have confused things and stayed home to watch cat videos instead! But seriously, when the highest screen average for a general release is for a reissue of a 40-year-old musical doco, you cannot blame doomsayers for saying that there's a serious problem with cinema.

Another lacklustre weekend at the box office, led by The Marvels; audiences must have confused things and stayed home to watch cat videos instead! But seriously, when the highest screen average for a general release is for a reissue of a 40-year-old musical doco, you cannot blame doomsayers for saying that there’s a serious problem with cinema.

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Indrani Kopal: Mastering the Art of Screen Business

Within a couple of years of arriving in Australia from Malaysia, Indrani Kopal, a teacher and filmmaker is excited about the opportunities ahead of her after commencing Master of Arts Screen: Business at AFTRS.

Within a couple of years of arriving in Australia from Malaysia, Indrani Kopal, a teacher and filmmaker is excited about the opportunities ahead of her after commencing Master of Arts Screen: Business at AFTRS.

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Gabriel Murphy’s Damn Good Story

Made during film school, the emerging director’s hybrid documentary Enemy Alien has been embraced by the festival circuit, both at home, and now abroad.

Made during film school, the emerging director’s hybrid documentary Enemy Alien has been embraced by the festival circuit, both at home, and now abroad.

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Stephen Dupont’s Verité Raskol

With his decade in the making documentary Kaugere: A Place Where Nobody Enters, the distinguished photographer brings his ethos to filmmaking.

With his decade in the making documentary Kaugere: A Place Where Nobody Enters, the distinguished photographer brings his ethos to filmmaking.