When does practice become protest? Or protest, poetry? An intimate portrait of internationally acclaimed artists, Heather Ackroyd & Dan Harvey, who work at the intersection of art, activism, biology and ecology, and their quest to shake humanity into action on climate catastrophe – whatever the personal cost. Intrinsically bound up in protest, the film follows…
On the Road with Ian Mckellen (2020) An intimate journey following Ian Mckellen celebrating his 80th birthday by touring his one man show to over 80 theatres in the UK. He raised £6 million for theatre charities. Contributors include Dame Judi Dench, Sir Derek Jacobi, Frances Barber, Sean Matthias and many others.
We owe our entire existence on this planet to six inches of top-soil and the fact that it rains. There are more living creatures in a handful of soil than humans on the planet. But we’re running out of soil. We’ve lost 40% of arable land worldwide in the last 45 years. Luckily there is…
Carole Leblanc, a nurse and Jo Béfort, a vet, started their wine adventure six years ago in Collias, France. Their dream was to produce excellent wine. They had no experience, just their passion – and friends. Winemaking is a complex and labour intensive process, and still a very macho affair in France. But as this…
SBS Australia Croc-a-Dyke Dundee is about Dawn O’Donnell, a pioneering figure in Sydney’s LGBTQ+ scene. It explores her life as a former ice skater who built an empire of gay bars, clubs, sex shops and other establishments in the 1970s and 80s, a time when homosexuality was illegal. The film delves into the mythology surrounding…
Channel 4 UK and The History Channel The latest film in the consistently superb True Stories strand is particularly prescient — it gives a detailed insight into the trail of Thomas Cholmondeley, the aristocratic heir (Delamere family) to an immense colonial estate in Kenya, accused of murdering a poacher in 2006, who was found guilty…
Released in 2002, Girls On Tour enters the most exclusive girls club in the world, the Sanex WTA women’s tennis tour, where women are treated like princesses and the top players are all millionaires. Anna Kournikova, Jennifer Capriarti, the Williams sisters and Martina Hingis have all achieved fame and fortune on the tennis courts, but…
SBS Australia A film portrait of David Mcdiarmid, an interdisciplinary artist who played a pivotal role in shaping Australian visual culture in the 1980s and 1990s. He was a dedicated gay liberation activist; his personal politics were inseparable from his art. His work explored and celebrated his own sexual identity while scrutinising the stigmatisation of…
Steffi, a photographer, and her journalist friend Greg persuade a magazine editor to commission an article on New York’s upcoming Gay Games. Only weeks before the event, however, Steffi is dumped by her ice skating partner and lover, thus jeopardizing the article. But she soon meets Natalie.
The first ever film on Sydney’s LGBT Mardi Gras, and a delightful tribute to Australia’s apparently open- minded acceptance of gays, at least within cosmopolitan Sydney. Colourful doc is a joy. The historical/political themes played out here are delayed echoes of Euro-North American gay-lib currents. But as an alternative Chamber of Commerce plug, it’s undeniably…