Two separate but in many ways similar statements,signed by some of Australia's and the world's most significant cultural leaders and published last week,have intensified the debate about"cancel culture".
More people have a voice than ever before,so debate and the occasional eruption should be expected - and respected.
The twittersphere may be up in arms over Eliza Scanlen's short film Mukbang,but not all Korean-Australians share the outrage.
Criticisms of the Sydney Film Festival following the Mukbang controversy are hurtful and alarming.
A high school outsider’s obsession with internet culture mutates into a sexual awakening when she discovers the South Korean phenomenon'mukbang'.
Little Woman actor and first-time director Eliza Scanlen has deleted a scene from a short film that won a best director prize.
Rosemary Kariuki,Parramatta Police's multicultural community liaison officer,stars in the documentary Rosemary's Way.
Best documentary went to a film about a Dutch woman who plunges into chilly water in just a swimming costume to deal with trauma.
The dramatised documentary They Call Me Babu centres on nannies who were virtually slaves for Dutch families.
There are two stand-out films and others that resonate strongly among the documentaries at the first online Sydney Film Festival.
After spending 30 years working at Port Kembla steelworks,Robynne Murphy has made a film about the campaign by mostly migrant women who were effectively locked out of the workforce.