Andrew F Peirce

All That Glisters, the feature film debut from writer/director Trilby Glover, has been selected as the Special Presentation in the Spotlight Series at next week’s Australian Women’s Film Festival in Sydney. The screening, on Wednesday September 23 at 6pm at Event Cinemas, George Street, will be followed

“When you are on the phone or on the air, you have no body” Marshall McLuhan I suspect that if he’d lived to see it, McLuhan might’ve expanded that sentiment to include ‘online’. Online, we are transformed into disembodied objects; things to be observed rather than comprehended. We

So much of the discussion about cinema viewing this year has been about what cameras Christopher Nolan shot The Odyssey on.

There's something in the water in Adelaide that's forcing a major change within the Australian film industry. The Adelaide Film Festival exists and has continued their great financial support for establish and emerging filmmakers, helping nurture the budding ecosystem which has seen talent like the Philippou brothers explode into the world and change how modern Australian films and filmmakers are seen.

When I think of the sounds of Western Australia, the licks of Wide Open Road by the Triffids hits my mind, or maybe The Waifs yearning to be back in London, or occasionally it'll be a wistful memory of a cleaner dancers in a mental health facility pop up in my mind.

Screen Australia has today announced over $5.7 million of production and development funding for 47 documentaries that bring distinctive Australian voices and perspectives to the screen, supporting both established and emerging teams.

Welcome to the Curb's first reader survey. Oddly, I've (Andrew, the guy who runs the site) never run a reader survey in the eight years we've been trucking along.

Natalia Laska's tender and gentle, yet deeply humorous and charming, documentary The Piano Tuner follows her partner, Martin Tucker as he traipses across Australia, from Hobart to Darwin, tuning people's pianos. He visits farms. He visits family homes. He visits the elderly living by themselves. And he listens to their stories, all the while bringing their pianos back to life.

A venue where we experience art can be transformed by the art that is presented there. That's what will happen with the upcoming horror film screenings at the Sydney Opera House from 27 October to 31 October 2026 with the spine-tingling program of films presented under the banner: Hellhouse.

Amy Goodman is one of the founding minds behind the vital independent media organisation Democracy Now! Over decades, Democracy Now! has covered civil unrest in places like East Timor, protests across America, provided hard hitting interviews with people like President Bill Clinton, and breaking news from crisis events.