This Tasmanian has tuned 18,000 pianos. Now he’s won a place at Sydney Film Festival
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- May 5, 2026

The 20-year-old filmmaker Kane Parsons has risen to the top so fast that he’s had zero time to process how far he’s come. “It’s been go, go, go,” Parsons tells WIRED. “Even the tiniest bit of a break,” he says, would give him some better perspective on everything that’s happened over the past few years.
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Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. AAA After four decades tuning an estimated 18,000 pianos, Martin Tucker reckons his job is guaranteed to give him a living for as long as he wants. Australians love playing pianos – as the hit ABC
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M (100 minutes) Whether Warwick Thornton’s Wolfram qualifies as a Western depends on what you think a Western is. There’s no lack of heat and dust, even more than there was in Thornton’s 2017 Sweet Country, likewise set north of Alice Springs around 1930 (and scripted by the same team, David Tranter and Steven McGregor).
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