At this weekend's Supanova festival in Sydney we met hundereds of people who's interests share ours. People who want to know more about cultures from around the world and experience them through films, anime, machinima, et al.

The State Library of Victoria is screening Mark Butcher's Sticky Carpet as part of a program showcasing Australian music documentaries. The Outside-In program shows films in the Experimedia section of the Library. You even get the a deckchair to sit in.

Cyclic Defrost has an engaging interview with Ex Drummer director Koen Mortier. In the interview Koen talks about the difficulty in getting funding for the controversial film and the extremely mixed reaction to the film in his home country of Belgium.

Wednesday night sees the launch of the video messaging project I Wish I Could Show You. The brain-child of Sticky Carpet co-producer Pip Stafford, I Wish I Could Show You is a database of anonymous video messages. These videos might be confessions, snippets of life, catharsis, love and hate letters, documentaries-anything you want them to be.

The Tracey Fragments has received a hugely positive reception in New York after it opened in cinemas last week. Here's what the critics had to say:

"Ms Page... brilliantly embodies precocious intelligence." - A.O. Scott, New York Times