{"product_id":"diary-of-a-film-by-niven-govinder","title":"'Diary of a Film' by Niven Govinder","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"65\" data-end=\"476\"\u003ePart memoir, part production notebook, part reckoning. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"65\" data-end=\"476\"\u003eGovinder documents the making—and unmaking—of a debut feature under conditions of financial pressure, institutional indifference, and queer erasure. He writes with a diarist’s immediacy, but the book’s real subject is authorship itself: who gets to make work, who controls it, and what survives when the system withdraws support.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"478\" data-end=\"834\"\u003eWhat emerges is a sharp, unsentimental account of creative labour at the margins. The book sits somewhere between film writing, personal essay, and critique, there's not much cinema as glamour and I imagine will appeal to readers interested in art-making under constraint rather than industry myth.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44048328294483,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Untitleddesign-2026-02-11T154154.025.png?v=1770784926","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/diary-of-a-film-by-niven-govinder","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}