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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Miss Fisher - how the producers used crowdfunding to maintain artistic control

Steeped in culture, Screenhub's new journalist reckons that Phryne Fisher is the closest thing we have to a superhero. How…

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Mystery Road: From auteur film to prime time TV

Producers David Jowsey and Greer Simpkin talk about transforming Ivan Sen's arthouse Westerns into ABC's hit series.

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MIFF 2014: Critics Campus

With an immersive strand for emerging critics, MIFF 2014 stepped boldly into one of the most contentious areas of the…

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Nothing beats Baz at AACTA

Gatsby scooped the awards but there was buzz as well as Baz at the AACTA Awards - and (if you…

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Girl Horror: five female directors grab horror by the balls and head for cannibal country

In news that’s been bubbling in the cauldron for a while, five female directors are developing an anthology of horror…

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Why we are laughing

Comedy is booming and the ABC is laughing all the way to the bank thanks to Dirty Laundry Live,Upper Middle…

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Martin McGrath: proved himself on the news, raking in a fine career

Paths cross and tangle in fascinating ways in our industry, with teams of talent grouping and regrouping in different combinations…

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Get Up defends ABC, one banana at a time

The Coalition dumped its proposal to sell the ABC following a cute but terrifying campaign from Get Up.

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Foxtel: guess where it found its latest local production?

TV1's SF Channel has reached deep into the internet, peered over the heads of the fan base, found a spaceship…

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TV producer wanted PM, got Rudd

Between his two stints running the country, recycled PM Kevin Rudd was filmed in the political reality show 'Shitsville Express'.

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