Features
Virtually Our Reality: Storm Dog
ALL THE TALK about the impact of climate change can feel so abstract and intangible. Filmmaker Caro MacDonald’s latest creation, Storm Dog, aims to bring the likely realities of the...
DIFF Makes a Splash
TO CELEBRATE 10 INCREDIBLE YEARS of the Darwin International Film Festival (DIFF), the DIFF team are inviting Territory filmmakers to make waves with the introduction of The Water Screen. Darwin...
Parade Days
IF YOU FANCY A STROLL DOWN DARWIN Festival’s memory lane, you don’t have to travel far. The Lighthouse in Festival Park is set to become a canvas for a video...
Review: Cheeky Dogs, To Lake Nash and Back
DION BEASLEY JOINS FORCES once again with Johanna Bell after two successful forays into the world of children’s writing. By Kingsley Gittins This time, they tell Dion’s story – from...
Moon Film Festival
GAZE UP AT THE MOON AND STARS at the Deckie, and get set to launch into an (inter)stellar night of film to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Apollo...
French Film Festival
CELEBRATING ITS 30TH ANNIVERSARY, The French Film Festival in association with Alliance Française de Darwin presents this wonderful celebration of magnifique French cinema and culture. French cuisine will also be...
Review: Malediction The Cursed Play
By Kingsley Gittins SEAN GUY’S NOVEL IS AN ENGAGING and well-written tribute to all things Shakespeare. The story takes the form of a reverse whodunit, where the actors in a...
Self-publishing Your Novel
Got a manuscript you’re ready to share with the world and keen to self-publish? There are a lot of options out there these days, but it’s hard to know where...
Meet Deckchair Cinema's New GM
Previously Deckie Ops Manager, James Parker was appointed General Manager after his predecessor Alice left to travel the world. We caught up with him for a chat. Was GM a...
Top End Wedding
Mover over Mick Dundee – the Top End has a new image. By Tamara Howie Top End Wedding hits the silver screen this month. Co-writer and star, Larrakia/Tiwi woman Miranda...
NT Travelling Film Festival
The relationship between music and memory was the inspiration for filmmaker Jane Hampson's short film Sunset. Sunset follows the story of Ingrid, an 89-year-old who is abandoned on her birthday...
Flickerfest 2019
A showcase of Australia’s best short films will also be cracking some jokes this year, with Flickerfest set to include a special comedy line-up for the first time. By Kylie...
Off The Shelf - The Lifted Brow
Welcome to my column where each month I’ll take a book from the shelf to share. By Kate Rendell With the push to re-establish an NT literary journal of ‘our...
NT Literary Awards - entries open
Get those fingers tapping - entries for the NT Literary Awards are open until the end of April. By Tamara Howie The annual competition is a great excuse to knuckle...
NT Travelling Film Festival
Creating a cinema in remote areas is no easy feat - but doing so gives those living out bush an experience that city-dwellers often take for granted. The NT Travelling...
Book Week - Q&A with director Heath Davis
Chasing your dream doesn't always go to plan, but sometimes it will set you on a different course. By Tamara Howie Writer and director Heath Davis wrote the film Book...
Deckchair Opens for 2019
It’s back! The Deckchair Cinema has dusted off the chairs and worded-up the possums to prepare for an influx of movie lovers. The season kicks off a week earlier than...
Off The Shelf - Pachinko
Welcome to my column where each month I’ll take a book from the shelf to share. By Kate Rendell I’ve arrived late to Min Jin Lee’s epic novel Pachinko, which...
Flix In The Wet
Flix in the Wet has kept film-lovers happy throughout the never-ending build up this Wet season. The move to BCC Cinemas in Casuarina, after the city cinema’s closure, hasn’t deterred...
Holiday Reads
Lovin' local. Gathering Sticks Margaret Heffernan with Frances Coughlan and Gerard Waterford A life in transition from traditional culture to a very different world, this new release from IAD Press...
