Regional film festivals are sprouting from the verdant local ooze around Australia, but none has had quite such a complicated learning curve as the annual screening weekend in Dungog. Dominic Case reports on latest developments, and adds a historical spin.
Dungog is a classic – and classy – little NSW country town, boasting a main street with the usual complement of churches and banks, a couple of pubs and a showground . . . plus a railway station (three XPT services to Sydney every day) and the oldest purpose-built cinema still running in Australia.
