JANE FREEBURY is a film critic of long-standing. After postgraduate studies in cinema in London, she began writing a column for national affairs monthly, Australian Society magazine, on new releases and developments in the local film industry. At the time, she was also lecturing at the University of Wollongong in screen and cultural studies, where she taught for four years. A further period overseas followed during which she contributed film reviews, interviews and cinema features to the English-language newspaper, The Jakarta Post. Back in Australia three years later, she became a regular arts journalist for the Canberra Times, to which she has contributed reviews and features regularly for more than 25 years.  She is now also published on the influential review site Rotten Tomatoes. In addition, she has produced and broadcast her reviews for community radio, ArtSound FM, while her byline has appeared in The Guardian (Australia), Metro, Metro Education, Cinema Papers, Filmnews, The Australian, Anne Summers reports, Black & White Magazine and Media Information Australia.