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Jessie Hughes, AI for Women in Screen – a recipient of the Screenrights Cultural Fund. Image: Jessie Hughes/Salty Dingo
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Screenrights announces $300K in Cultural Fund support for screen initiatives

Screenrights has awarded $300K to six screen projects in Australia and NZ.

A Poet has won this year's Bright Horizons Award at MIFF.
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2025 MIFF award winners: A Poet wins the $140K Bright Horizons Award

This year's winner of the MIFF Bright Horizons Award depicts a failed poet turned reluctant mentor drifting between aspiration and…

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The SXSW Sydney Games Showcase is an unmissable experience for all gamers

The SXSW Sydney Games Showcase is a must-see celebration of bold ideas, immersive gameplay, and the best in emerging game…

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Pasa Faho review: a complex, moving portrait of a Melbourne less-seen

Pasa Faho is a heartfelt film about a Nigerian father and son finding (re)connection in a rarely seen side of…

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Zombucha! review: zombies, kombucha, mayhem!

With their relationship hanging by a thread, can Maddie and Leo unite to prevent a full-blown zombucha apocalypse?

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Journey Home, David Gulpilil review: a fitting tribute to a cinematic hero

Directors Maggie Miles and Trisha Morton-Thomas were allowed unprecedented access to David Gulpilil's ceremonial funeral.

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Spreadsheet Champions review: excels in being 100% great value

Aussie doco Spreadsheet Champions follows 6 young Excel wizards competing for the world title.

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Beast of War review: a snappy WWII nightmare on water

Nyikina actor Mark Coles Smith excels as a VB-swigging soldier of good fortune in Beast of War.

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From Looking for Alibrandi to Kangaroo: director Kate Woods returns to Australia

Kate Woods' latest film, Kangaroo, is about 'family, home and belonging’ and ‘having faith in yourself’.

Sarah Bernhardt illustrated as Joan of Arc. Image: CC0 Public Domain
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Queen's Gambit star pipped to play Joan of Arc in Luhrmann’s new 15th century epic

Isla Johnston may star as Joan of Arc in Baz Luhrmann's next film.

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