FACING FEAR (2022)
A man goes on a global search to understand fear, after receiving some devastating news.
Director: Bill Bennett
Stars: Bill Bennett Lee Carroll Joe Dispenza
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PLAYING WITH SHARKS - THE VALERIE TAYLOR STORY (2021)
Director: Sally Aitken
Producer Bettina Dalton
Executive Producer: Alan Erson
The story of Australian icon Valerie Taylor: diver and filmmaker who captured the underwater world on camera for films like Jaws. With access to decades of personal film archives, this feature will reveal how Valerie defied gender expectations in her work, and dedicated her life to shark conservation.
Valerie Taylor is a shark fanatic and an Australian icon. A marine maverick who forged her way as a fearless diver, cinematographer and conservationist. She filmed the real sharks for Jaws and famously wore a chain mail suit, using herself as shark bait, in experiments that changed scientific understanding of sharks forever. What Jane Goodall is to chimps, or Steve Irwin to crocs, Valerie is to sharks. Her love affair with the ocean spanned half a century... and whole lot of danger. This powerful and visually sumptuous 90 minute feature documentary will draw on 5 decades of re-mastered film footage, feature a stranger than fiction script, a magnetic heroine, and world-famous faces. And, of course, sharks.
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DANCING ON ICEBERGS (2018)
Director: Corey Baker
Star: Madeleine Graham
The film, 'Antarctica: The First Dance', was created by Kiwi choreographer Corey Baker, and Royal New Zealand Ballet star Madeleine Graham.
The creative duo both spent 12 days on the ice for the film.
"Never in my wildest dreams did I expect to be there dancing. It was incredible," Ms Graham said. The Australian-born ballerina started dancing at age seven.
'Antarctica: The First Dance' features Ms Graham suspended within a glacier and sliding down mountainsides as temperatures reached as low as -16 degrees. "As dancers, we're used to looking out into the complete darkness, so to be dancing and looking out into something so spectacular and inspiring gave me that extra kind of feeling and reason to do what I was doing," she said.
For choreographer Corey Baker, the film has been a project two years in the making.
Mr Baker said the film is "hopefully beautiful but also powerful to be able to share a message around climate change that sticks with people in a different way".
THE NEW RADICAL (2017)
Director: Adam Bhala Lough
Stars: Cody Wilson, Amir Taaki
Uncompromising millennial radicals from the United States and the United Kingdom attack the system through dangerous technological means, which evolves into a high-stakes game with world authorities in the midst of a dramatically changing political landscape.
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Hot Sugar's Cold World (2015)
Director: Adam Bhala Lough
Writers: Adam Bhala Lough, Hunter Stephenson
Stars: Frank Andrews, Danny Brown, Shelby Fero
A documentary that follows electronic musician Hot Sugar in his quest to capture, transform and extract meaning from the sounds and silences of every day life.
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The Nightmare (2015)
Director: Rodney Ascher
Stars: Estrella Cristina, Siegfried Peters, Age Wilson
A look at a frightening condition that plagues thousands; sleep paralysis.
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Us and the Game Industry (2014)
Director: Stephanie Beth
Experience recent designs for video games in the 21st Century. The developers, their peers and the world of support structures for these expose the magic explored in a number of games. Thatgamecompany is watched during it's build of JOURNEY(2012); also, Jason Rohrer, Alexander Bruce, Douglas Wilson, and Zach Gage. Shot in San Francisco, New York, Davis, Austin and Copenhagen.
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The Art Star and the Sudanese Twins (2008)
Director: Pietra Brettkelly
Writer: Pietra Brettkelly
Stars: Matthu Placek, Vanessa Beecroft, Jeffrey Deitch
Vanessa Beecroft is obsessively determined to adopt Sudanese twin orphans. Her consuming passion drives her marriage to a breaking point and fuels her controversial art, raising troubling questions about exploitation, culture clash, and the imposition of the West on Africa.
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