PRESS RELEASE Championing the growth of diverse Australian stories on film is the focus of the 2022 CinefestOZ Industry Program, which will kick off on Wednesday 24 August with an Inclusion in Action workshop before the main program on Thursday 25 and Friday 26 August in Western Australia’s South West. Headline speakers include Adam Piron…
Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. I found it hard to sleep after watching The Stranger. Anyone who watches the film will find there’s a lot to unpack. The whole experience kept my mind ticking over that night, and for days afterwards. The Stranger is a grim, gut-wrenching…
Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Samuel Gay’s A Guide to Dating at the End of the World will have a limited cinema run in Brisbane this month. Filmed entirely in Brisbane with an all-Queensland cast and crew, A Guide To Dating At The End of The World is…
Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Welcome to latest episode of the Cinema Australia Podcast. I’m very excited to be discussing the wonderfully weird, and outrageously funny The Lonely Spirits Variety Hour with the film’s director and co-writer, Platon Theodoris. The Lonely Spirits Variety Hour follows radio…
Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. In part two of Cinema Australia’s We Are Still Here interview series, we chat with Tracey Rigby – a passionate filmmakers who’s short film, Rebel Art, is one of eight contributions to the new anthology film. Tracey Rigney is a Wotjobaluk and…
Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. A brand new trailer has dropped for Jub Clerc’s anticipated debut feature film, Sweet As, ahead of the film’s upcoming screenings at MIFF and CinefestOZ. Sweet As is the first Australian feature written and directed by a Western Australian Indigenous filmmaker, and…
Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. “We aim to do what many films before have failed to do, and that is to show honest, fun, queer representation in film.” by Matthew Eeles A new feature film is currently in pre-production in Western Australia called Sweet Rhythm, and…
Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Following the film’s world premiere at the WA Made Film Festival in March, Christopher Mark Peters’ Moorehouse Road is heading for a local cinema release in Perth. The horror thriller follows young newlyweds Sunni and Flynn, along with their friend Tyler,…
Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Beck Cole’s name may not be as synonymous with indigenous Australian filmmaking as Thornton, Perkins, Blair, Sen or Purcell, but the Warumungu and Luritja woman’s filmography is equally extensive and just as impressive as some of those aforementioned names. Cole’s television…
Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. by Matthew Eeles Among the films in consideration for this year’s AACTA Award for Best Short Film, and one you should be seeking out as it hits the Australian film festival circuit, is Victim – a harrowing short film about the extreme…
Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. A new trailer has been released for Brodie Poole’s masterful new documentary, General Hercules. For millennia the remote arid deserts of Western Australia lay undisturbed. On the 14th of June 1893 European prospectors discovered ‘The Golden Mile’ on what was the…
Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Finalists in the CinefestOZ Short Film Competition were announced today ahead of the Short Film Awards, which will be held as part of Australia’s largest destination film festival from 23-28 August in Western Australia’s beautiful South West. Recognising exceptional storytelling and…
Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. The innovative Australian film Sorella’s Story has been selected to World Premiere In Competition at the Venice Immersive (Formerly Venice VR Expanded) strand of the prestigious Venice International Film Festival in August, one of a select number of projects from around…
Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Welcome to the latest episode of the Cinema Australia Podcast. It’s been a while since the last episode of the Cinema Australia Podcast, but for those who enjoy listening I’m happy to let you know I will be publishing more regularly in…
Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Nexus Production Group has announced an international release date for its latest short film, The Dance, via the production company’s YouTube film series Life Improvised – micro glances into life, the love, loss and hope we all find and lose within everyday relationships. …
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