Gillian Armstrong

As notions of civil rights transformed across the world, so was the screen landscape reformed by the ascension of grassroots film movements seeking to challenge the mainstream. Some aspired to push form to its limit; others worked to destabilise what they saw as a homogenous industry, or to provoke questions around gender, sexuality, migration and race.

Documentary biography on Oscar-winning Australian costume designer Orry-Kelly, a man who had a massive influence on Hollywood style with a colossal career of 282 films from the 1930s to '60s.

On a tour of Britain in 1926, Harry Houdini enters into a passionate affair with a psychic out to con the famous magician...

Judy Davis and Sam Neill lead this 1979 Australian classic, a Palme d'Or-nominated adaptation of Miles Franklin's period piece novel.

Vicki begins an affair with her sister Beth's intriguing French husband in this 1992 Australian love-triangle drama.

Nazi-occupied France in 1942. Charlotte Gray (Cate Blanchett), a young Scottish woman recruited as a secret agent, joins the French resistance. Her real aim: to rescue her Royal Air Force lover.

In her classic 1868 novel about love, family and becoming a woman, Louisa May Alcott told the dramas and adventures of Mrs March and her four "little women"…

Pamela B. Green documents the career of Alice Guy-Blaché, the first female film director, and seeks to find out why this artist faded from memory.

Judy Davis re-teams with her My Brilliant Career director, Gillian Armstrong, in this award-winning, multi-generational Australian drama.

Gillian Armstrong documentary about flamboyant design pioneer, Florence Broadhurst, who was born in outback Australia, 1899...