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Film News The Olden Days

Vale Craig Tonkin

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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Books News

Vote for the Highly Commended Squishbook and win!

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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Film Music News The Olden Days

Unmasking Myself As A Multi-Media Terrorist

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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Books News

Correcting “Mistakes” in Squishbook

Why I got out the red pen to correct 997 Squishbooks.

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Books News

I’m in a book – Squishbook!

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.

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Film Flip News

Flipping the script

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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Film Glass House Music News The Olden Days

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 […]

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Bruce Film News

BRUCE has landed

After 228 years and even more drafts, may I present to you the show that will challenge everything you think you know about the First Fleet: BRUCE. BRUCE – The Full Series For more information on this incredible black comedy convict web series, starring Richard Davies, Dave Lawson, Angus Sampson, visit http://BruceTheSeries.com. Or you could […]

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Bruce News

Bruce is coming… very soon…

Hello readers, or spambots or whoever’s looking this way. According to the logs, there still seem to be tens of thousands of you per month, so I apologise to any actual humans who have been checking back here on a regular basis in the hope of seeing some new content. Those of you who are […]

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Bruce Film News The Project

Back from the dead

Well it has been a bloody long time since I’ve posted here. Sorry about that, old chums. So here’s an update about goings-on at The Empire. Since August, I’ve been working at The Project as a writer and web producer, which means running the content on their web site, as well as writing possible jokes […]