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Apple Pay Aussie Online Casino: The Future of Mobile Deposits

March 30, 2026

The way Australians fund their online casino accounts is changing fast. With the rise of contactless payments in everyday life, from grabbing a coffee in Melbourne to tapping on public transport in Sydney, it was only a matter of time before digital wallets made their way into the iGaming space. Apple Pay, already a staple…

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Instant Withdrawals: The New Standard for Australian Online Casinos

February 21, 2026

The wait is over for Australian players who value their time and their winnings. In the fast-paced world of online gaming, waiting days for a payout feels like a relic of the past. Today, the demand for an online casino for australians with instant withdrawals is reshaping the market, putting power back where it belongs…

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Australian Online Casino No Download: Instant Play at Your Fingertips

December 14, 2025

The way Australians enjoy online casinos has changed dramatically. Gone are the days when you needed to download bulky software and wait for lengthy installations before spinning the reels or placing a bet. Today, the rise of the Australian online casino no download model means you can jump straight into the action with nothing more…

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Praying the Hours Finds Its Festival Groove

April 4, 2022

This last week was a banner week for Praying the Hours. We signed our formal, global contract with Heritage Films in Australia, and we seem to have finally found our festival groove. As some of you will remember, last year every film festival to which we applied in the US (with one exception, Port Townsend…

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Films Connect Us

March 19, 2022

One of the beautiful things about putting a film out into the world and then giving it whatever reach you can muster is that you widen your circle of friends among some eclectic groups of people around the world. This week we heard that Praying the Hours was accepted into the Iconic Images Film Festival…

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“Praying the Hours” wins its first award!

March 7, 2022

It’s been a minit since we updated, so here are a few pieces of random news: we have applied a different tack with our submissions to film festivals—focusing online rather than in-person, where we have been told that a 3+ hour film is tough to program. That seems to be bearing fruit, at least here…

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Welcome to WONDER

December 23, 2021

It’s been a minute since I last posted a Praying the Hours update. First, big news: we have a distributor! We’ve been working with Heritage Films (aka Movies Change People) over the last couple of months on all the “deliverables”  necessary for them to find our international audience. Helmed by Rod Hopping, Heritage—and Rod—are old…

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Walking the Cinematic Path Together

October 20, 2021

That’s how Janette Force put it, director of the Port Townsend Film Festival, on her last year running one of the most robust, innovative, and gleefully exuberant fests I’ve ever been part of: “So grateful for this walk on the cinematic path together, my dear.” PTFF graciously allowed us to link through to the interview…

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Stories Need Time to Find Their Audiences

October 6, 2021

We’ve all had the experience of a story heard in childhood coming back to adult memory with a sudden “aha.” Sometimes stories need time to percolate, time to find the listeners who are looking for them, time to ripen. A film made by many in the Burning Heart Productions extended team (though not by this…

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Finding the Audience That’s Looking for “Praying the Hours” (pt. 2)

September 28, 2021

Months ago, just as we finished “final cut” of Praying the Hours, I wrote about anticipating the process of finding its audience. Right now, as this post is being written, Praying the Hours is part of the 2021 Port Townsend Film Festival’s virtual program. “Virtual” is a key word in this case, as Director Janette…

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