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If you’ve had the pleasure of seeing his work, you know exactly who Justin McMillan is. With breathtaking work as the Surf Unit Director for Simon Baker’s Breath, to his heart-wrenching short-film Gone, Justin’s work as a director demands the attention of its viewers. His gentle touch when [...]

Creating diversity throughout the production pipeline is something we’re pretty passionate about here at Taxi Film Production. Reflecting the multiple genders, races, sexual orientations and abilities we see in our diverse nation seems like a no-brainer when it comes to production. However, [...]

Like most things, I am in a state of flux as a creative, image maker, director, human. So it’s hard for me to tell you where I am at without telling you where I have been. I’ve grown up in a pretty real, honest — if somewhat gritty — regional Australian environment. I’ve seen my […]

Below are the things that make me tick. Tristan H. Story  Shooting a short documentary in Uganda on a potential Malaria vaccine for Griffith University I came across this woman and her daughter. They were living in the slums just outside the city of Kampala, their house was nothing more than [...]

SXSW 2017 — The Director’s Cut. Words by Miles Murphy   I recently had the good fortune of being sent to SXSW by Taxi, tasked with finding out what’s going on at the frontier of filmmaking technology, and to see where the industry trends are heading. That seems pretty straightforward, [...]

Q1.  Explain the place in which you grew up? Did you grow up on Noffler’s ‘Mainstreets” or was it more like Springsteen’s ‘Thunder Road’…? I grew up in Streatham, South London. It was more Scorsese’s “Mean Streets” than Noffler’s “Mainstreets”. It’s changed now, but back in the 80’s, it [...]