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agIdeas day 1 live blog
| Follow our live blog of the agIdeas design conference. Freya Davies gives us the low down on proceedings on Wednesday 23rd May.
Writers without borders
| In her last year as Director of the Emerging Writers' Festival, Lisa Dempster leaves a legacy of breaking the boundaries of the written word.
Controversy over $20,000 grant for met...
| 3AW shock-jock has questioned the artistic merit of death metal, after band OUROBOROS received $20,000 from the Australia Council to record their new album.
Screen Australia funds new documentari...
| Seven documentaries have shared $1.8m in investments from Screen Australia, including the four-part documentary series 'Once upon a time in Punchbowl'.
Spotify launches in Australia
| American users have been enjoying Spotify for a while now, but now – and with much bravado – the highly anticipated digital music service has launched in Australia.
Anna Lumb
| Anna Lumb (AKA Anna The Pocket Rocket) is an international artist specialising in circus, theatre and comedy.
Maude Davey
| Maude Davey is a writer, director, singer and actor, renowned for her nail gun monologues and charming, disarming, iconoclastic, political diatribes.
Sydney Film Festival's Official Compet...
| What would a film festival be without some friendly competition? The Sydney Film Festival has announced the 12 lucky films set to compete for the Sydney Film Prize this June.
Blackfella Films @ Sydney Film Festiva...
| In a partnership to rival all others, the Sydney Film Festival is collaborating with Blackfella Films to provide the best Indigenous films from Australia and around the world to the festival audience.
Sydney Film Festival presents the new ...
| The Sydney Film Festival’s Festival Hub offers a special ‘insiders’ view into the festival, presenting an array of exciting events for all film fans.
Anand Patwardhan
| Anand Patwardhan has been making political documentaries for nearly three decades pursuing diverse and controversial issues that are at the crux of social and political life in India.
Benjamin Gilmour
| Benjamin Gilmour was born in Germany in 1975, but has lived most of his life in Australia where he works as an ambulance paramedic, filmmaker and writer.
Bruce Petty
| Bruce Petty is one of Australia's greatest political cartoonists. He won an Oscar for 'Leisure' in 1976. His latest film 'Utopia' is screening at the 2012 Sydney Film Festival.
Davor Dirlic
| Davor Dirlic was born in Croatia and now lives in Melbourne. He is a filmmaker with an abiding interest in personal journeys undertaken by those who dare to challenge the established social norms.
Miguel Gomes
| Miguel Gomes is a Portuguese film director born in 1972 who first began as a film critic before directing a series of refreshingly eccentric short films. 'Tabu' is his third feature film.
Penny Vozniak
| Penny Vozniak shoots and directs documentary films & video art. Her latest documentary 'Despite the Gods' is screening at SFF.
Sacha Polak
| Born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in 1982, she graduated from the Dutch Film and TV Academy with the short film 'Teer'. She later directed the shorts 'El Mourabbi', 'Drang' and 'Brother', and the medium length film 'Under ...
Paul Gallasch
| Paul Gallasch briefly studied Anthropology at The New School for Social Research before moving into a diploma of Documentary Filmmaking at the New York Film Academy.
Pietra Brettkelly
| Pietra Brettkelly is a New Zealand documentary director and producer, best known for the film 'The Art Star and the Sudanese Twins'. Her new documentary 'Maori Boy Genius' is screening at SFF.
Steven McGregor
| Steve McGregor is an Indigenous writer/director from the Northern Territory. His documentary 'Croker Island Exodus' is screening at SFF.
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