Thomas Caldwell

Author, Education Consultant, Curriculum Specialist

Thomas Caldwell is a freelance writer, broadcaster and public speaker who specialises in film criticism and educational writing on film. He is the author of the secondary school textbook Film Analysis Handbook, he writes the film criticism blog Cinema Autopsy and he reviews films for the Breakfasters on Melbourne independent community radio station Triple R (3RRR 102.7FM). He also co-hosts the Triple R film criticism podcast Plato’s Cave, regularly reviews films for The Big Issue and is one of the film and television columnists for Killings, the Kill Your Darlings blog.

Thomas’s reviews, articles and interviews have also appeared in The Age, Overland Literary Journal, Senses of Cinema, Metro and Screen Education. He won the Ivan Hutchinson Award for Writing on Australian Film in the 2010 Australian Film Critics Association (AFCA) Writing Awards. He is currently on the Melbourne International Film Festival 2012 Features Preview Panel.

More about Thomas at http://blog.cinemaautopsy.com/

What are you passionate about?

Cinema that is persuasive, provocative and challenging, but also the art of writing and speaking about films in an informed, analytical and entertaining way. The most rewarding experiences I’ve had as a speaker is having excited students and teachers come up to me after a presentation to tell me that they’ve discovered something new about a film that they had never considered before.