IF YOU’RE PASSIONATE about keeping our Top End coasts healthy, this free short film festival is a must do, must see, must hear. Held in the iconic seaside location of...
Featuring acclaimed actor Balang T. E Lewis in his final performance, The Skin of Others tells the extraordinary story of Aboriginal WWI soldier, Douglas Grant. By Anna Dowd Grant was...
DION BEASEY’S ICONIC art combined with Johanna Bell’s writing talent was a recipe for delight back in 2013 when Too Many Cheeky Dogs was published, quickly becoming one of NT’s...
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IT'S TIME TO GRAB the popcorn and pull up a deck chair – Flickerfest is back! Australia’s largest short film festival is making a pitstop at Deckchair Cinema this month...
DARWIN-BASED WRITER Monica Tan recently took out the Best Non-Fiction Book for Stranger Country in the 2020 Chief Minister’s Book Awards. OTL caught up with her for a chat. Congrats...
2020 IS DARWIN'S TURN to host the annual NT Writers’ Festival, an annual celebration of the written word, which is also held in Alice Springs every second year. The newly...
Preserving the stories of Elders, Brother Moon is a new children’s book by local author Maree McCarthy Yoelu and illustrator Samantha Fry, published by Magabala Books. A gentle but powerful...
Enjoy this look behind-the-scenes from local actor Phil O’Brien on Fracketty Frack – a comedy sci-fi web series set in the Northern Territory. IT STARTED LIKE most never-to-be forgotten adventures...
CALLING ALL NORTHERN TERRITORY writers – entries for the 2020 NT Literary Awards are now open! This annual competition covers a range of categories including Short Story, Poetry, Creative Non-Fiction...
AFTER THE SUCCESS of Walking with Camels, a story about the fascinating Bertha Strehlow, you could forgive Leni Shilton for taking a break. Instead, she has produced this powerful collection...
Have you ever given much thought to the women that find themselves behind bars? What did they do? How did their lives lead to incarceration? These are all questions that...
I’m left with a smile on my face – even as an adult – after reading Sandra Kendell’s sweetly illustrated children’s book Beauty. This is a story with some wonderfully...
While the tropical monsoon drenches the outdoor Deckchair Cinema, you can still catch Darwin Film Society's expert programming at Flix in the Wet, on every Sunday afternoon from Jan 19...
Deckchair Cinema isn’t just OTL’s fave big screen in the Top End – it turns out more people than ever are settling in under the stars at the iconic outdoor...
The Top End’s beloved outdoor cinema closes its gates for the 2019 season this month, but before the hardworking team pack away the deckchairs, unstring the lights and go into...
By Kingsley Gittins RARELY WOULD I DESCRIBE a book as both well-written and difficult to read at the same… Tyson Yunkaporta’s Sand Talk definitely falls into this category. Chock-a-block full...
ALICE TO PRAGUE IS a book of stark contrasts – the open skies of Central Australia versus the smoggy concrete cities of Eastern Europe, a new world order of Western...
HOMELANDS ARE SITUATED on the traditional land of the people who live there. They are of central importance to their identity and culture. Homeland Story is a feature documentary about...
The NT Library officially launched their Curator’s Cut program as part of the Darwin International Film Festival last month. The series showcases rare films from their audio-visual collection, with one...