Castlemaine Documentary Festival
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Discover the program
The 2023 Castlemaine Documentary Festival is fast approaching, scheduled for June 16 – 18. The full 2023 program will be launched tomorrow at 7.30pm at the Theatre Royal Castlemaine and celebrated with a screening of the gorgeous Australian film, Because We Have Each Other. This film by award-winning director Sari Braithwaite, who will be in…
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Controversial film to premiere
The most controversial documentary film in the world last year – and despite the storm it created, one of the least seen – will be screened for the first time in Australia in Castlemaine in early May. The film – originally titled Jihad Rehab, but since re-titled as The Unredacted – had a wildly controversial…
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Royal and C-Doc to celebrate IWD
To celebrate International Women’s Day on Wednesday March 8, the Theatre Royal Castlemaine and Castlemaine Documentary Festival will be joining forces to present two sensational films. The films to feature will include All The Beauty and The Bloodshed at 5pm followed by Miúcha, The Voice of Bossa Nova at 8pm. With film introductions and a…
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A film lover’s feast
Eve Lamb True stories that cut to the core of what it is to be human offer film lovers a weekend-long big-screen binge as Castlemaine Documentary Festival opens this Friday at the town’s Theatre Royal. “The theatre can fit 300 and we hope it’s packed,” says festival director Claire Jager who’s strongly advocating a “bingey…
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Writing with fire
The countdown is on until the 2022 Castlemaine Documentary Festival, set to feature at the Theatre Royal from July 1-3. The theme for this year’s event is ‘Realise the Possible’ and the team behind this year’s event has once again gone above and beyond to source an array of films that feature ‘Real stories. Real…
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Music docos to light up screen
Lights, camera, action! Castlemaine Documentary Festival invites the community to attend two free public screenings at The Village Square Castlemaine. CDOC director Claire Jager said the two fabulous music docos featured extraordinary performances and great storytelling and were well-suited to being screened outdoors on a Saturday night. The first film Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami will hit…