After receiving devastating news, filmmaker Bill Bennett sought ways to handle his fear, talking to the world's leading experts in fear management.
Winner of the Movie That Matters Award, the film tackles many of Lebanon's challenging issues, including the 2019 October Revolution and the global social justice movement that was triggered among the millions of Lebanese diaspora.
Given the rise of hybrid film festivals across the past 18 months, it's fitting that some film productions also incorporate pre-pandemic elements with the new normal.
If Australia needs inspiration for the ongoing battle against COVID-19, it can be found in the country's efforts to eliminate cervical cancer, according to Sue Collins.
'The Flood', Victoria Wharfe-McIntyre's debut feature, follows a female heroine (Alexis Lane) as she exacts revenge on an unjust colonial Australia.
The flying foxes that soar across Sydney each evening face many challenges: impacted by heatwaves, evicted from urban parklands, struggling to survive an ongoing loss of habitat. Bat carers save a handful here and there, and ecologists document their struggles, as threats escalate. Filmed over six years, The Weather Diaries reaches its climax in 2020, as temperatures soar, bushfires rage, and flying fox pups die in record numbers. Drayton ruminates on our failure to value these essential pollinators and the forests they sustain, and reflects on the implications for her daughter Imogen, a girl long inspired by Studio Ghibli’s Princess Mononoke, who’s emerging from the classical confines of the Conservatorium High School to embark on a career as an electronic pop artist.
Distributor and cinema-on-demand platform FanForce has launched streaming service FanForce TV, with a focus on community-led viewing and online discussion of films.
Cinema-on-demand platform Fan-Force is taking on a growing number of Australian films as well as working on titles with independent distributors.