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Issue Details: First known date: 2012... 2012 Underground : The Julian Assange Story
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'Set in suburban Melbourne in the late 1980s, Underground follows a teenage Julian Assange and his gang of friends — the International Subversives — as they try to break into the computer systems of the worlds most powerful organisations. Hoping to uncover the inner workings of these groups, the boys wage battle from their bedrooms with the technologies, with each other, and with the Senior AFP Detective who is intent on shutting down their group.'

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Cinema Plus : Robert Connolly and Event Audience Screenings Stephen Gaunson , 2017 single work criticism
— Appears in: Studies in Australasian Cinema , vol. 11 no. 2 2017; (p. 77-84)

This article discusses the problems that Australian films face in the big distribution model, and ways that producers have rethought how their films are funded and distributed. To do this it uses the case study of Robert Connolly's Cinema Plus exhibition company. Although there is a historical precedence set for Connolly's self distribution venture, this shift to rethink how Australian films are being distributed and exhibited is certainly representative of a changing reassessment of the porous relationship between production and exhibition, which for some time Screen Australia demarcated in by two separate pools. What Cinema Plus represents is a recognition that conventional big distribution is not always the most effective way to reach the widest possible audience.

Good to Be Bad Penelope Debelle , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 4 June 2016; (p. 10)
Dawn of the Assange Cult Tim Kroenert , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Eureka Street , 10 March vol. 23 no. 5 2013;

— Review of Underground : The Julian Assange Story Robert Connolly , Mark Davis , 2012 single work film/TV
Disrespectful Indigenisation : The Films of Robert Connolly Matthew Campora , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Senses of Cinema , December no. 69 2013;
'In this article, I will examine the work of contemporary Australian filmmaker Robert Connolly (b. 1967), a director who could be considered amongst the most successful contemporary filmmakers working in Australia today. While many of his colleagues have struggled to make their second (or even first) feature film, Connolly, in his various roles, has made a feature roughly every other year since graduating from the Australian Film Television and Radio School in the late 1990s. To date, he has written and directed four feature films, produced nearly a dozen others, worked on such quality television series as The Slap (2011), written and directed a made-for-television-movie, and produced the epic film adaptation of Tim Winton’s short story collection The Turning (2013). His track record in the contemporary industry makes him a significant case study, and as a means of introducing this analysis, I want to briefly consider Graeme Turner’s 1994 article “Whatever Happened to National Identity? Film and Nation in the 1990s” to help situate Connolly’s work in the context of Australian cinema and the narrative trends of recent decades.' (Author's Introduction)
Gongs Galore 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 3 December 2012; (p. 3-5)
Tiger Mother Colin Vickery , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 3 October 2012; (p. 4)

— Review of Underground : The Julian Assange Story Robert Connolly , Mark Davis , 2012 single work film/TV
Portrait of a Teen Hacker Paul Kalina , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 4 October 2012; (p. 6-7)

— Review of Underground : The Julian Assange Story Robert Connolly , Mark Davis , 2012 single work film/TV
Underground Preview Debi Enker , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 4 October 2012; (p. 7)

— Review of Underground : The Julian Assange Story Robert Connolly , Mark Davis , 2012 single work film/TV
Untitled Melinda Houston , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 7 October 2012; (p. 24)

— Review of Underground : The Julian Assange Story Robert Connolly , Mark Davis , 2012 single work film/TV
No Stickybeaks Into Wikileaks Darren Cartwright , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 6 - 7 October 2012; (p. 16)

— Review of Underground : The Julian Assange Story Robert Connolly , Mark Davis , 2012 single work film/TV
Film Captures the Teenage Assange Michael Lallo , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 20 May 2012; (p. 12)
Trash Slashed for Dramas Colin Vickery , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 7 September 2012; (p. 21)
World Wide Web Davis Guy , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 1 October 2012; (p. 4-5)
Source Code Paul Kalina , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 1 October 2012; (p. 3)
Ratings for Assange Telemovie Lift Mood at Channel Ten Michael Idato , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 9 October 2012; (p. 6)
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