Castlemaine Documentary Film Festival
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CDOC explores the theme of truth
The highly anticipated 11th instalment of the Castlemaine Documentary Film Festival opens this Friday and runs through until Sunday at Castlemaine’s historic Theatre Royal. This year’s theme is ‘Truth. You couldn’t make this stuff up’ and will see 10 incredible films showcased across the three-day event, which will take audiences across the world, back in…
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LOCALS set to inspire
Castlemaine Documentary Festival’s (July 4-6) beloved annual celebration of homegrown storytelling LOCALS returns to Castlemaine historic Theatre Royal on Saturday July 5. LOCALS brings together a vibrant collection of short-form works by central Victorian filmmakers and is so popular with local audiences that tickets had just about sold out at the time of going to…
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Immerse yourself in CDoc
There is just over a fortnight left until the 2025 Castlemaine Documentary Film Festival opens at Castlemaine’s historic Theatre Royal. CDoc’s opening night special event on Friday July 4 will feature the silent film and masterpiece, Man With A Movie Camera, with live score by Underground Lovers Moda Discoteca. This score has been commissioned especially…
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Fringe film premiere tonight
The Castlemaine Documentary Festival is teaming up with the Castlemaine Fringe Festival and the Theatre Royal tonight to present the premiere screening of Walking The Fish. Celebrating 30 years of the Castlemaine Fringe Festival, this film by Michael Harkin commemorates how it all began. This premiere will also be accompanied by a stand-out selection of…
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Masterclass and music
After the roaring success of LOCALS at this year’s Castlemaine Documentary Festival they’ll be doing it all again in 2023! In order to assist entrants to prepare for the 2023 event, CDOC is hosting a Storytelling Masterclass at Castlemaine’s Northern Arts Hotel with three veterans of the documentary world next month. CDOC director Claire Jager…
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Filmmaker puts body on the line
A crowdfunding campaign has been launched to support the completion of a local documentary film celebrating the journey of the Mt Alexander Falcons Women’s Football Club. The community is urged to get behind the campaign to help complete Equal the Contest, a feature-length documentary film following the development of the new women’s football club and their…
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Composer’s soundtrack nominated
A music soundtrack written by a Campbells Creek local has been nominated for a Screen Music Australia award. Rob Law composed the music for the documentary film The Magnitude Of All Things, which had its international premiere at the Vancouver International Film Festival in Canada in late 2020. Directed by Canadian Jennifer Abbot, the award-winning…
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The magnitude of all things
In the wake of COP26 in Glasgow, Castlemaine Documentary Film Festival’s latest pop-up offering, The Magnitude of All Things, couldn’t be more timely. The latest offering by award-winning Canadian filmmaker Jennifer Abbott was launched at Sydney Film Festival last week and will enjoy its Victorian premiere at Castlemaine’s Theatre Royal on December 1. When Jennifer Abbott…
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C-DOC this weekend
The 2021 Castlemaine Documentary Film Festival is going ahead this weekend … online.The festival will see eight incredible films screened over two big days on Saturday and Sunday. C-DOC festival chair Claire Jager said organisers were ready to go ahead online with 48 hours to view.“We are now the festival you can participate in when…
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Film and fiesta!
Castlemaine Documentary Film Festival will return to the big screen at the Theatre Royal Castlemaine next month.The festival will kick off with a launch party on Friday July 23 and will then see eight incredible films light up the big screen at the Royal on July 24 and 25, including three Australian premieres. The film…
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C-DOC back on terra firma
Castlemaine Documentary Film Festival is set to return to the big screen at the Castlemaine Theatre Royal in 2021.C-DOC was forced online last year due to the COVID-19 lockdowns and therefore it was apt organisers dubbed the 2020 festival ‘C-DOC – In the Clouds’. This year organisers look forward to returning to ‘terra firma’ and…
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Women of Steel to raise vital funds
Castlemaine’s Theatre Royal is teaming up with its partners at the Castlemaine Documentary Film Festival to hold a special fundraising screening of Women of Steel. Theatre Royal operator Felicity Cripps said they were opening the venue especially for International Women’s Day on March 8 to hold the screening, which aims to raise funds for the…