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There are countless bands that never become famous, never fill arenas and never find their records sitting at the top of the charts, yet still become an important part of the communities in which they perform. Hog Heaven: The Pigz Brotherz Story, directed by Scott Simerly Jr., is a short music documentary about exactly that kind of band. In just 11 minutes, i...

Twenty five years can turn even the most shocking events into history for a generation that did not experience them firsthand. News footage becomes archive material, photographs appear in textbooks and places that once represented scenes of unimaginable destruction become memorials. Memories From Ground Zero, a 31-minute documentary written and directed by Ro...

Sometimes a very simple setup is all a film needs. Regressions, an Irish short running for around 14 minutes, spends most of its time with three siblings sitting around a dining table talking. There are no elaborate locations or dramatic set pieces required. Instead, writer, director and lead actress Rebecca Hickey puts her faith in dialogue and performance, ...

There is something immediately inviting about a film that knows exactly what world it wants to inhabit. From its opening moments, Love Loaded makes its intentions clear. Writer and director Jan Miller Corran takes us back to the crime dramas and film noir of the 1940s and 1950s, complete with smoky clubs, torch singers, dangerous secrets and complicated romances. Considerable...

There are plenty of films about friendship, but considerably fewer about people who have absolutely no idea how friendship is supposed to work. Hands Up Who’d Like a Hug?, an 84-minute Australian comedy from writer, director and producer Mick Connolly, takes four very different men and ties them together through loneliness, jealousy, alcohol, insecurity and s...