The official trailer for new indie thriller, Because You’re Mine, has been released. After years of sacrifice and the heartbreaking loss of his mother, Caleb (Shaun Gonzalvo) finds himself adrift, struggling with grief and a profound sense of purposelessness for the first time in his life. In a desperate attempt to find solace, he joins…
Bad Rev Films has announced an international sales and distribution partnership with Kaleidoscope Film Distribution for the company’s debut feature film Site Unseen. Kaleidoscope, the London-based company behind Icon Film Distribution, will handle worldwide sales and distribution outside Australia and New Zealand, and will take the elevated found footage horror-satire to the American Film Market…
GGG Films’ latest short film, Dodger is now available to stream. Dodger is a grounded dystopian drama set in a near-future wartime Australia in which conscription has been reintroduced. It follows a young woman, Vic, who must convince her friend Sam to help her get pregnant in order to avoid military service. The film was inspired…
Officially launched at the Australia Pavilion at COP31, the concept trailer for new Australian feature documentary Holding Fire reveals the incredible fire management practices being brought back by Indigenous Australians. Evolved over decades, Indigenous ranger groups in northern Australia’s remote Arnhem Land combine ancient knowledge and modern technology to deliver sophisticated landscape scale fire management.…
A backyard experiment with a mind altering tea made from flowers results in a whole lot more than expected in Nic McRobbie’s new short film, Flowers. “Flowers is a film born from necessity, based on experience and shot in my backyard,” McRobbie tells Cinema Australia. “The result is five minutes of fun and a lifetime…
Australia’s leading inclusive filmmaking organisation invites young people with intellectual disability or autism to find their creative home in 15 locations nationally, as Boss Cat heads to cinemas. Enrolments are now open for Bus Stop Films’ 2027 Accessible Filmmaking Program, offering young people with intellectual disability or autism the chance to build friendships, develop real…
Dead Eyes, the Australian horror feature shot entirely in first-person POV, is now available to watch via AppleTV through Umbrella Entertainment. Written, directed, produced and edited by Brisbane filmmaker Richard E. Williams, the 81-minute feature was independently produced in South East Queensland. Told entirely through its protagonist’s perspective, the film follows a search for a…
Language of Birds, the feature directorial debut of acclaimed documentary and drama director and writer Erica Glynn (She Who Must Be Loved Berlinale 2019), is now in post-production following a five week shoot in the raw beauty of Australia’s remote North East Arnhem Land. Starring actor Rärriwuy Hick (True Colours, Gods of Wheat Street, Wentworth)…
With a 92% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, a ranking of number five on The Guardian’s list of the Top Ozploitation Movies, and the endorsement of filmmakers like Quentin Tarantino, Richard Franklin’s 1981 thriller Roadgames is a bona fide Australian classic. Now, Umbrella Entertainment is giving fans of the film, and general movie buffs, an opportunity…
This year, Christmas comes a little earlier for horror fans with today’s announcement that Steven J. Mihaljevich’s gruesome survival horror thriller Shed is set for a national Q&A tour and cinema release in November. Ten-year-old Mia (Mani Shanks) loves Christmas with her family, but things take a turn on Christmas Eve when she is accidentally…
Getting a low-budget independent Australian film made is one thing. Getting people to actually see it is another. Finding the right distributor can be a long, frustrating and often bewildering journey, particularly for filmmakers working without big budgets or industry connections. In this article, Bunny Rabbit filmmaker James Branson takes us down the rabbit hole,…
These days, almost everyone seems willing to share everything on social media. Some even take it to the extreme, commercialising their entire family’s lives, including their children’s, in exchange for a few free products. Most companies love it. They get to turn people into walking advertisements for peanuts. But actress-turned-filmmaker Bojana Novakovic, who has been…
Three emerging WA creatives have turned limited resources, creative ambition and a shared determination to make films in Perth into a feature-length psychological thriller set to premiere at Luna Cinemas this November. Because You’re Mine will make its Perth premiere on Wednesday 25 November, bringing together the local cast and crew behind the independent film…
Co-directed by Jared Nicholson and Ben Lawrence, Aftermath is a narrative steeped in paranoia, fear, trauma, conspiracy theories and some questionable mistruths. On the surface, however, it’s a delicate, sensitive and well-considered psychological examination of Wendy Scurr and the extreme mental anguish she experienced in the aftermath of the Port Arthur massacre. Scurr witnessed unimaginable…
RIPPA Films has announced that Gracie Sees a Ghost, a gripping horror short directed by award-winning Melbourne filmmaker Gemma Carfi (Ostrich), has been officially selected for the prestigious 33rd Austin Film Festival shorts program in Texas. Taking inspiration from iconic Australian cult horror Lake Mungo, Gracie Sees a Ghost investigates a shocking family annihilation case…
