A tribute to Craig Tonkin, my fellow producer/director/writer of Star Wars fan doco The PhanDom Menace, who has suddenly passed, aged just 51.
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Vale Craig Tonkin
Squishbook has been Highly Commended by the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, and that means you can vote for it for People’s Choice – and win 10 indivdually-selected books in the process!
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2024 Great Choons
So much great music in 2024! Here’s a playlist of my favourite songs plus other highlights from a very groovy year.
New Horizons In Violence (N.H.I.V.) were the world’s most blackly subversive mashed media terrortainment group during the War on Terror. Our complete film has finally been released – here’s the full story.
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Laughy 30th, You Bastards
To mark the 30th anniversary of Melbourne community TV Channel 31, a look back at the station’s first sketch comedy show: Laugh You Bastards.
Why I got out the red pen to correct 997 Squishbooks.
SQUISHBOOK is a book for kids put together by the talented and lovely comic artists at Squishface Studio, and I’m thrilled to have been a contributing writer.
I’m so grateful to Screen Australia for supporting Alli Parker and I to write a draft of FLIP, a genre-smashing film about the role Australia played in the birth of competitive women’s skateboarding, a sport which, 20 years later, has become an Olympic highlight.
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Lost in the past…
It was 20 years ago todayish… Craig Tonkin and I released a doco, The PhanDom Menace, about a Star Wars fan club around the time of the release of the first prequel, Episode I: The Phantom Menace. It ended up being distributed on DVD around the world, marking the first time I was paid for […]
Does January 26 actually mark the arrival of the British on our shores – or the French? (Originally published 25 January 2019 on The Project website.) Here at The Project, we absolutely love Australia. We’re true blue fair dinkum bonza cobbers, jolly jumbuck rustling billabong swagpeople, by jingo. I hope that establishes our patriotic credentials. […]