Rochelle Siemienowicz

Rochelle Siemienowicz is a Melbourne writer and editor. Her first book Fallen, a memoir was published in 2014 and her second, Double Happiness, a novel, in 2024. She has a PhD in Australian cinema and was previously a journalist at ScreenHub and ArtsHub. ou can find her on Instagram: @Rochelle_Rochelle or at Substack where she writes a fortnightly newsletter, The Fool and the Queen.

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Ripping the fabric of monotony: Two Video Projects Defy Lockdown

A cemetery's ghosts are projected on a bridge in Donna McRae's latest work, while giant puppet 'Lanimals' take back the…

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Jacob Hickey on making factual TV with purpose

Blackfella's head of factual talks about keeping a format fresh and avoiding tackiness in the third season of SBS's 'Filthy…

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In This Together: Screen events mark Reconciliation Week

Choose from a rich selection of Indigenous film, TV and live events to mark this National Reconciliation Week #InThisTogether2020.

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Warwick Thornton's big time-out at The Beach

An interview with the award-winning filmmaker about his very personal project. Part cooking show, documentary series and performance art, it…

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Freewheelers: writers room goes virtual but stays real with disability

Producer Belinda Dean and writer Emily Dash talk about their Digital Originals project and developing a character who happens to…

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Thalu is Doing it for the Kids

Producer Tyson Mowarin talks about the extreme labour of love involved in making a 10-part Indigenous kids' show in the…

In My Blood It Runs. Image: Bonsai Films
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New Australian films to watch now

There's never been a better time to catch up with recent, locally-made features, from Miss Fisher to The Invisible Man,…

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Quarantine Cinema is Making Do

Keeping community connected is the goal for the Melbourne Cinémathèque, but there's no pretense it's ideal.

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Making Australia's first show starring a transgender kid

Writer-director Julie Kalceff talks about First Day, the groundbreaking children's TV series now showing on ABC ME.

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Five Feelgood TV Shows to Binge in Isolation

Outside the door it is life and death stakes. Indoors we want a break.

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