LUKE BUCKMASTER

LUKE BUCKMASTER

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Luke is a writer, film and TV critic and public speaker.

He is currently writer and film critic for The Guardian Australia, film critic for Flicks.com.au and a contributor to publications such as Daily Review and BBC Culture.

Luke has contributed to a wide range of other publications including VICE, The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, Senses of Cinema, Arts Hub, Screen Hub, Filmink, The Big Issue and the thewebsite of the Australian Centre of the Moving Image (ACMI).

Luke has lectured about cinema for LaTrobe University and in 2010 and 2018 won an Australian Film Critics Association writing award (for his review of I’m Still Here and Ellipsis).

In 2014 and 2015 he presented digital literacy workshops on the topic of film and TV in social media for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and has conducted classes at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School.
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Luke was the co-host of the ABC iView program The Critics, which ran for two seasons in 2016 and 2017.