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ESSAYS№ 01
Strictly Ballroom is a film about who is allowed to teach the steps
Baz Luhrmann's 1992 comedy is sold as a story about dance. It is also a story about an Australian champion who has to be taught his own steps by a Spanish-Australian family in their own house.
MARA DENG01.10.2026
ESSAYS№ 02
Looking for Alibrandi was the first Australian story handed to me as mine
It was not my family's story. It was the shape of my family's story, put on a screen in a country that had never once bothered to hold it before.
MARA DENG24.09.2026
ESSAYS№ 03
Who is Australian cinema for and does it know
The question is not whether Australian films are good enough; it is whether the industry has decided who it is talking to.
MARA DENG16.06.2025