Umbrella Entertainment in association with Monster Pictures will release Occupation Rainfall to home entertainment on June 16. Occupation Rainfall has been described as the most ambitious sci-fi film ever produced in Australia. Following a major theatrical release earlier this year that saw Occupation Rainfall play in over 200 cinemas across Australia, Luke Sparke’s highly anticipated follow-up to the 2018 feature Occupation…
Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. A few years ago Cinema Australia covered a short film called Waltzing Tilda. Well the makers of that spectacular short are back with another impressive piece of work, an offbeat and quirky sci-fi comedy called Untitled Earth Sim 64. Here, director…
Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. A new trailer has dropped for Hug the Sun, a six episode web series that will launch this month via the Grouse House YouTube channel. This comedic sketch series is the brainchild of comedians Xavier Michelides and Ben Russell and was…
Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Thanks to our friends at Umbrella Entertainment, we’ve got 3 copies of Australian thriller Black Water up for grabs. Umbrella Entertainment will release filmmakers Andrew Traucki and David Nerlich’s critically lauded survival-horror Black Water to Blu-ray in a feature-packed edition on May…
Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. FanForce has announced the return of the Virtual Indigenous Film Festival for Reconciliation Week 2021! FanForce will present a collection of award-winning Indigenous Australian films, followed by Q&As with special guest speakers including filmmakers, community leaders and cultural academics. Films making up the…
Anthony O’Connor, screenwriter of cult Australian films Angst and Redd. Inc, is about to unleash his first novel with Straya, an anarchic and raucous ride through the bowels and other organs of post-apocalyptic New Sydney. I love a sunburnt dystopia. Straya lies in ruins. A once proud nation, the former Australia has regressed into a…
Cinema Australia Original Content: Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Tim Ross is set to join a panel of industry professionals who will provide mentorship to regional filmmakers via a new Capricorn Film Festival initiative. Proudly supported by Gladstone Regional Council, Meet your Mentors is an online initiative presented through…
Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Directed by Ken HannamWritten by John DingwallStarring Jack Thompson, Reg Lye, Max Cullen, Peter Cummins, John Ewart, Lisa Peers Written by Gavin Bond If ever anyone needed to be reminded about just how charismatic Jack Thompson was in his early screen…
Cinema Australia Original Content: Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Homespun – a brand-new web series about a dynamic duo who give the bush image a facelift in a shed show that raises the town’s exposure and a few eyebrows – will have its world premiere at CinefestOZ…
Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. “I wanted to make a cinematic experience that goes in the opposite direction – one that explores the emotional and mental consequences of carrying out a brutal act of vengeance in the name of justice.” Cinema Australia readers have been treated…
Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. New Australian feature film It Only Takes A Night will begin filming in Perth next month. Melbourne-born actor Eliza Taylor (The 100) is set to star in the new romantic-comedy written and directed by Perth-based filmmaker, Callan Durlik. Durlik’s screenwriting credits…
Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Following its world premiere at the Gold Coast Film Festival, the charming romantic comedy This Little Love of Mine will release in cinemas on Thursday April 22, 2021. In an innovative move, the distributor will donate 100% of their theatrical release net profit…
Cinema Australia Original Content: Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. AFI-winning actor Judy Morris has been acting since the late 60’s and has appeared in some of Australia’s most iconic films including Razorback and Phar Lap, and lesser-known gems like John Power’s 1977 comedy, The Picture Show…
Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. English actress, television presenter and comedian Sally Phillips has joined the cast of new Australian feature film How to Please a Woman, a warmhearted look at sexuality and vulnerability in all stages of life, that commences filming on Monday 26 April in…
Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Director Nicole Miller joins the Cinema Australia Podcast to discuss This is Port Adelaide – a passionate love letter to one of Australia’s greatest sporting clubs, Port Adelaide. Port Adelaide Football Club celebrated 150 years in 2020. Love it or hate…
