from ‘Bran Nue Dae’ (2009)
dir. Rachel Perkins
Australian musical comedy-drama feature film, adapted from the 1990 coming-of-age stage musical ‘#BranNueDae’ by Jimmy Chi.
It follows an Aboriginal Australian teenager on a road trip in the late 1960s.
Australian Drama Production Spend Leaps 43% To Record $1.8B But Fears Over Domestic Business Remain
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https://deadline.com/2025/12/screen-australia-drama-report-production-leap-1236635622/
Australian film producers and experts call Trump tariff proposal bizarre and impossible to enforce
“Nobody should be under any doubt that we will be standing up unequivocally for the rights of the Australian screen industry,” said Tony Burke, Australian Minister for the Arts.
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50 years ago, Peter Weir’s ‘Picnic at Hanging Rock’ entranced audiences with its haunting score and ethereal visuals. Adapted from Joan Lindsay’s seminal novel, the internationally recognised and award-winning film helped launch Australian New Wave cinema onto the global stage.
“What happens if we lock down our countries with competitive, punitive arrangements against each other’s movies? Movies are the way in which we kind of understand each other more.”
- Kevin Rudd, on a proposal for 100% tariffs on non-US film productions.
Nice little Animus Magazine interview with the director of NITRAM (among plenty of others) about his upcoming television and film work. I've been a fan of Justin Kurzel's since the terrifying SNOWTOWN, and his work's usually great.
Interview:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/justin-kurzel-at-75913809
My ★★★★½ review of NITRAM (about the Port Arthur massacre):
https://letterboxd.com/attentive/film/nitram/
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S. K. Riley
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