BBFF2025 Meet the Filmmaker: Neo Sora

BBFF2025 Meet the Filmmaker: Neo Sora

Set in a near-future Tokyo, the film follows a group of teenagers as they confront surveillance, social prejudice and the constant threat of natural disaster, while finding solace in friendship, rebellion and music.

Sora, son of the late composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, has drawn on both personal experience and wider social anxieties to craft a story that is both intimate and political.

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BBFF2025 Meet the Filmmaker: Benedikt Just

BBFF2025 Meet the Filmmaker: Benedikt Just

The Heart Revolution blends poetic imagery and groundbreaking science, challenging us to rethink what we know about the human heart. As it makes its Australian Premiere at the Drill Hall Theatre, we spoke with director Benedikt Just about the winding journey that led him to filmmaking, the seven-year process of bringing this documentary to life, and why he believes the heart holds the key to understanding what it means to be human.

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BBFF2025 Meet the Filmmakers: Alison Cornyn and Heather Greer

BBFF2025 Meet the Filmmakers: Alison Cornyn and Heather Greer

Filmmakers Alison Cornyn and Heather Greer have long worked at the intersection of storytelling and justice. In Hilda O. vs. The State of New York, they follow 81-year-old Hilda Onley as she seeks justice for the abuse she endured while incarcerated at 15. Silenced for decades, Hilda finally finds a path forward after the 2019 passage of New York’s Child Victims Act.

We spoke with the co-directors about their creative process, how they first connected with Hilda, and what her story reveals about resilience, visibility, and the long arc of justice.

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BBFF2025 Meet the Filmmaker: Ben Sturgulewski

BBFF2025 Meet the Filmmaker: Ben Sturgulewski

Ben ‘Sturge’ Sturgulewski grew up on a remote island in Alaska’s Aleutian Chain, sparking a lifelong passion for wild places and the people who inhabit them. His award-winning short films have screened globally, earning acclaim for cinematography, editing, and storytelling. He’s worked with Patagonia, YETI, Arcteryx, Red Bull, and others, and his ski film VALHALLA was named "The Greatest Ski Film of All Time" by Outside Magazine. Champions of the Golden Valley is his first feature documentary.

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BBFF2025 Meet the Filmmaker: Anna Trichet-Laurier

BBFF2025 Meet the Filmmaker: Anna Trichet-Laurier

Anna is a producer and director whose work weaves together environmental urgency and human resilience. With award-winning projects spanning National Geographic (Save This Shark, Save This Rhino), Stan (Misunderstandings of Miscarriage), and Channel 7 (Here for the Horses), Anna has built a career bringing powerful real-world stories to the screen. Her independent debut feature, Nansie - a deeply personal, warm and moving portrait created with journalist Adelaide Miller - affirmed her voice as a storyteller to watch, earning recognition at Sydney Film Festival and the Asian Academy Creative Awards.

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BBFF2025 Meet the Filmmaker: Caleb Graham

BBFF2025 Meet the Filmmaker: Caleb Graham

Caleb Graham is a Sydney-based filmmaker and cinematographer whose work is grounded in honesty, intimacy and human resilience. With two ACS Gold awards and international credits including Green is the New Black (BBFF2021) and Blue and Gold (BBFF2024), Caleb has established himself as a rising voice in documentary storytelling. His latest film, Beyond the Break, follows para-surfing world champion Joel Taylor, capturing a story of resilience, identity and community.

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BBFF2023 Meet the Filmmaker: Andrew Shaw
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BBFF2023 Meet the Filmmaker: Andrew Shaw

The darkness at the edge of a boy’s play threatens to turn him into a beast. ‘Boy/Beast’ delves into the challenging phase in boys' lives when they vigorously test limits to establish their identity. It's a narrative of a boy's anger driving him to discover his voice at any expense, uncovering the hidden grief it shields — a feminine perspective on masculinity at its core.

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BBFF2023 Meet the Filmmaker: Susie Forster

BBFF2023 Meet the Filmmaker: Susie Forster

Discover the moving story of Lee Stephenson, an 82-year-old artist, and her dying wish to spend her last days at home. Her daughter, Susie, captures this emotional journey as the family unites to fulfil Lee's wish. With COVID-19 restrictions adding complexity, the documentary reveals the power of love and determination in honouring Lee's final desire.

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BBFF2023 Meet the Filmmaker: Kym Staton
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BBFF2023 Meet the Filmmaker: Kym Staton

The gripping story of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks controversy, this powerful documentary directed by Kym Staton, takes you on a global journey of truth, exposing government secrets, personal sacrifice, and the battle for press freedom.

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BBFF2022 Meet the Filmmaker: Paul Ashton
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BBFF2022 Meet the Filmmaker: Paul Ashton

Paul Ashton takes us on a journey deep in a forest, where two friends Barry and Larry indulge in conversation that is by turns light-hearted and extremely topical, revealing surprising revelations, both good and bad, along the way.

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BBFF2022 Meet the Filmmakers: Andrew Englisch and Hamish Pattison
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BBFF2022 Meet the Filmmakers: Andrew Englisch and Hamish Pattison

Andrew Englisch is an award winning film maker, photographer, pilot and adventurer, with cinematographer Hamish Pattison comes a stunning, intimate and raw portrait of Andrew’s journey to raise himself out of the depths of depression and be the first person to cross one of the most dangerous stretches of water on the planet the treacherous Bass Strait on his Wing Foil.

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BBFF2022 Meet the Filmmaker: Ismail Khan
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BBFF2022 Meet the Filmmaker: Ismail Khan

Ismail Khan takes us on a journey as we follow a surrealist figure into a liminal space, a space of transition where one must embark on a journey of acceptance in order to move on from a reality that no longer exists.

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BBFF2022 Meet the Filmmaker: Eddy Bell
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BBFF2022 Meet the Filmmaker: Eddy Bell

While empathising with traditional Australian farmers caught between debt and devastation, Eddy Bell points a hard finger at the influential public figures who deny climate change. In this poignant and beautifully shot film, Eddy’s omnipresent giants – part of the Kaputar mountain range – serve as his call to action for modern approaches to sustainable farming.

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BBFF2022 Meet the Filmmaker: Katrina Channells
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BBFF2022 Meet the Filmmaker: Katrina Channells

Katrina Channells and writer Joe Hinchliffe bring us a compelling story of an eccentric Shakespearean actor who decides that this performance will be his final curtain call. As a celebration of Byran Nason’s dedication and absolute commitment to theatre.

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BBFF2022 Meet the Filmmaker: Adam Finney
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BBFF2022 Meet the Filmmaker: Adam Finney

Adam Finney takes us on a story that follows Lanz Priestley, a charismatic homeless man who owns nothing but a phone and a Facebook page. When Lanz discovers that taps have run dry in the drought-stricken outback, he raises the money to deliver drinking water himself.

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BBFF2022 Meet the Filmmaker: Gudmund Helmsdal
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BBFF2022 Meet the Filmmaker: Gudmund Helmsdal

Gudmund Helmsdal has created a powerful story set in the Faroe Islands, about two lone brothers who struggle to save their fragile relationship after the sudden loss of their older brother.

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