FilmGeist
Quentin Tarantino wrote the scripts for two of his blockbusters – True Romance and Natural Born Killers – whilst working in a video shop...
Steven Soderbergh rose to fame at the tender age of 26 in 1986 when his indie drama Sex, Lies, and Videotape won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival...
Filmmakers
The Coen brothers films mix intelligent, complex storylines with film noir, black humour and memorable characters and for three decades now they have been at the vanguard of some of the strangest, offbeat and powerful films in Hollywood.
UK-based director and producer Matthew Watson was born in Hong Kong but cut his teeth working extensively in television in the United Kingdom, notably on the hit television show Top Gear. In 2007 he formed his own production company, Zealot Films...
Latest Films
In Guinea Conakry, West Africa, four children are learning the secrets of Hamanah tradition. Yakhouba Dabo reaches Koumana during his travel and he meets them. It tells of the cross between village and city.
Over a period of 30 years, Bill Douglas discovered and collected pre-cinema optical devices–the story of these remarkable visual contraptions form the secret history of film.
Join filmmaker Steve Baile on an in depth tour of Lake Argyle and the Ord River Scheme and along the way uncovering the regions rich pioneering history and showcasing the spectacular rugged East Kimberley.
During the so-called Egyptian revolution, the people from Bulaq played an upper role. This film portrays a little known story of social marginalisation, whose destiny is strictly intertwined with the Egyptian spring.
A deeply disturbing film about the use and effects of DU munitions in wars in Iraq & Afghanistan, and how this danger is now coming to our backyard.
TThousands of children, some as young as two, were trafficked to work as camel jockeys in the Middle East. At the training schools, they were starved, injected with hormones and physically abused.
"When Bubbles Burst" provides a fascinating glimpse into the inner workings of the global economy, examining the mechanics behind bubbles and crashes and suggesting trends for the future.
No twentieth-century figure has had a more profound effect on the worlds of literature, film, politics, historical debate, and the culture wars than Gore Vidal. Anchored by intimate one-on-one interviews with the man himself, this is a fascinating and wholly entertaining portrait of the last lion of the age of American liberalism.
Tamer is 11 and dreams of the sea. Locked away in a Palestinian refugee camp, his father determines to make his dream a reality, against all odds.
Olsen, an itinerant troubadour who regularly graces Australian folk festivals, at her most engaging.
Months after Hosni Mubarak stepped down, Egyptians country-wide seem determined to maintain the insurgency until their demands are met