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.
CYNTHIA KARENA Contact Via AFCA Cynthia is a freelance journalist for Fairfax Media, mainly in technology and education. She also does corporate writing. Watching midnight movies as a child led her to a lifelong love of movies. She only ever got out of bed during the school holidays to watch the midday movie. Has been writing …
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.
JASON KING Contact Via AFCAWebsite Jason owns, writes and edits Salty Popcorn and Spooning Australia. He is a movie, food, restaurant, wine, chocolate, bacon, burger and brussel sprouts addict. He has been in the Australian film industry for over 25 years. Furthermore he loves watching people trip over and is Leonardo DiCaprio’s biggest fan.
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, …
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.
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 …
