The 2026 WA Screen Culture Awards were held in Perth last night, paying vibrant tribute to the remarkable talents and accomplishments shaping the captivating world of screen culture in Western Australia. Held at Luna Cinemas Leederville, and hosted by enigmatic WA performance artist and producer, Rose Kingdom-Barron, the WASCAs once again highlighted the amazing achievements…
Australia’s leading and emerging filmmakers will head west from 28 August to 6 September for the 19th CinefestOZ Film Festival, the nation’s largest dedicated celebration of Australian film. Released today, the CinefestOZ 2026 Official Program features more than 100 new feature films, short films and television series, alongside an exciting calendar of unique events hosted in cinemas, galleries, breweries, bars and restaurants throughout Western Australia’s beautiful South West. CinefestOZ CEO Cassandra Jordan said this year’s program celebrates the extraordinary diversity of Australian…
Thanks to our friends at Umbrella Entertainment, we’re giving you the chance to win a double pass to see Penny Lane is Dead. Penny Lane is Dead is the rip-roaring debut feature from writer-director Mia’Kate Russell that blends pitch-black ocker humour, and blood-splattering horror with a distinctly Australian twist. The film follows 17-year-old Penny (Bailey…
Peter Firebrace’s debute feature film, Of Womb, will celebrate its world premiere at the upcoming Melbourne International Film Festival. Three young women have been raised in innocence on a remote, dilapidated homestead, alone with their bedbound, intensely religious mother. Fuelled by a heady brew of existential terror, dogmatic belief and desire to dominate, The Eldest…
Australia remains in the grip of a family, domestic and sexual violence crisis. I won’t go too deeply into the statistics here, but they’re confronting, and as a society, we simply must do better. Considering storytelling has always been one of the most powerful ways to reflect the realities of our society, these issues are…
Sharmill Films and Stranger Than Fiction have shared the official trailer for Silenced, the critically acclaimed feature documentary making waves around the world. Billed as an “essential, galvanising watch” by Screen International, Silenced follows the powerful fight of Australian human rights lawyer and free speech defender Jennifer Robinson against the weaponisation of defamation laws by alleged perpetrators to…
Umbrella Entertainment has dropped the official trailer and poster for new Australian film, Storm Bird. Filmed in the Far north Queensland town of Babinda, Storm Bird is a character driven comedy-drama that follows Richard Hollingsworth (Anthony Phelan), a once-revered classical musician, now reclusive nihilist, living out his final months in tropical North Queensland. When Jack (James…
Madman Entertainment and Causeway Films are thrilled to unveil the official trailer for The Fox, writer/director Dario Russo’s striking debut feature. A darkly comic folktale blending satire and surrealism, The Fox stars Jai Courtney, Emily Browning, Damon Herriman, Claudia Doumit, Zlatko Burić, Frankie J. Holden, Heather Mitchell, Peter O’Brien and Kim Gyngell, Sam Neill as The Magpie, with Miranda Otto and Academy Award® winner Olivia Colman as The…
A striking new voice in Australian cinema, Harvey Zielinski, makes his feature film debut with Sweet Milk Lake. The tender story of family, masculinity and belonging, will have its World Premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) this August, where it has been selected to compete for the prestigious Bright Horizons Award. The film…
Tonight, the 74th Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) unveiled its full 2026 program including more than 300 screen works spanning features, shorts and XR experiences, and special events. On screen and beyond, MIFF 2026 bursts to life with an unmissable slate of special events – including the World Premiere of Tina Arena: Unravel Me, the…
Following celebrated festival screenings, a theatrical season at Cinema Nova, and being named by film critic Matthew Donlan in the Sydney Morning Herald as one of Australia’s top new films to watch, From All Sides will make its national television premiere on SBS World Movies on Monday, 20 July. Winner of the Runner-Up Audience Award…
The 2026 Vision Splendid Outback Film Festival has wrapped after recording the biggest festival in its 13-year history, with record box office results, increased national media coverage and the highest attendance ever recorded at the Royal Open Air Theatre. Across nine days, Winton welcomed visitors from around the country for Australian film screenings, world premieres,…
Melbourne filmmaker Dayna Di Fulvio makes their directorial debut with Urban Nipple, a thought-provoking documentary exploring how technology, censorship and social media policies affect women and gender-diverse people. The film centres on multidisciplinary artist Michelle Kometz, whose artwork focuses on nipple sculptures. Despite the artistic nature of her work, it is repeatedly removed or censored…
Homo, the latest short film from award-winning Filipino-Australian filmmaker Vonne Patiag will have its world premiere at the Revelation Perth International Film Festival this week. Homo follows two best friends, Mark and Rem, on a road trip. When Mark, a straight actor, books a queer role, he calls up his old best friend Rem to…
With two films already released through film festivals this year, the feature documentary The Femme Fatales of West Australian Wrestling and the short film Through the Lens, filmmaker and educator Zeke Morgan-Hind is set to premiere his latest film, Prompt: Make a Documentary, which explores one of the most talked-about topics in modern filmmaking: artificial…
