ZAK HEPBURN Contact Via AFCA Zak is a Melbourne based film critic and film programmer, and the former chairman of the AFCA. He currently appears on ABC TV’s national ABC News Breakfast program and other ABC Radio programs. He is also the General Manager of Melbourne’s iconic Astor Theatre, where he curates the theatre’s eclectic …
BERNARD HEMINGWAY Contact Via AFCA Bernard is the founder/editor of Cinephilia, an online film review site. The site is updated weekly with new theatrical releases and has a searchable archive of 5000 film reviews.
BEN HELLWIG Contact Via AFCA Ben is a writer and film critic for Cult of Monster, and Australian-based genre film site. He is the director of home entertainment for Monster Pictures and co-ordinator of Monster Fest. He has worked in the film industry for over 20 years and has a particular interest in the more …
ALEXANDRA HELLER-NICHOLAS Alexandra is a film critic, editor and consultant who has written five books on cult, horror, and exploitation film including Rap-Revenge Films: A Critical Study, Found Footage Horror Films: Fear and the Appearance of Reality and books on Suspiria, Ms. 45 and The Hitcher.In 2019 she is releasing two new books, 1000 Women …
RICHARD S HE Contact Via AFCA Richard is a AFCA award winning freelance writer and contributor for The Guardian, Junkee, Vulture, The Essential and Vice. He spends a lot of time thinking about high and lowbrow in pop culture, making amazing/terrible mashups, and not much else.
KEVIN HAWKINS Contact Via AFCA Kevin is a Melbourne-based writer who believes video cassettes are the most superior form of home-entertainment media. Underneath his desk are a few hundred VHS cassettes, most of which are either Disney kid’s flicks or Hitchcock murder mysteries. When not playing with the tracking button on the remote, Kevin writes …
PHILIPPA HAWKER Contact Via AFCA Philippa Hawker has been writing on film and the arts for The Age since 1997. She also writes for The Australian and is a former editor of the now defunct Australian film journal Cinema Papers.
REBECCA HARKINS-CROSS Contact Via AFCA WEBSITE Rebecca is a writer, editor, critic and researcher based in Melbourne, Australia.She is currently the film editor for The Big Issue, film columnist for The Lifted Brow and is undertaking a PhD in Creative Writing at Monash University. She was a theatre critic at The Age from 2012-2015.Her writing focuses on arts and culture, …
RICHARD HARIDY Contact Via AFCA WEBSITE Former Chair of AFCA, Rich also does weekly segments for several ABC FM affiliates, hosts The Parallax Podcast – a podcast featuring a variety of film critics and posts on his website richonfilm.com.
JACQUI HAMMERTON Contact Via AFCA Jacqui has more than 30 years’ journalism experience as a news reporter, feature writer, reviewer, designer, sub-editor and section editor, with a focus on the arts, family issues and real estate, working in metropolitan newspapers, magazines and radio.
