Interview: Davie Paterson

Mostly driven by an obsessed media and our willingness to worship infamous antiheroes like Ned Kelly and Chopper Reid, Australia has a long-running fascination with crime and the people who commit it. Australian filmmakers have tapped into that fascination for decades, delivering some of the country’s most memorable and celebrated films along the way. From…

New Trailer! Prompt: Make a Documentary

Zeke Morgan-Hind’s new documentary Prompt: Make a Documentary asks the question: Are we trading the auteur for prompts and probability? Artificial intelligence is no longer an emerging technology in filmmaking. It is already shaping how stories are written, images are created, films are edited, and audiences are targeted. Tools once reserved for major studios and…

Interview: Natalia Laska

In an age where streaming services, smartphones and digital entertainment dominate our daily lives, the humble piano has quietly slipped from the centre of Australian homes. Yet, as filmmaker Natalia Laska reveals in her moving documentary The Piano Tuner, these instruments, and the people who own them, still have stories to tell. The film follows…

Peter Weir to receive AFTRS inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award

Legendary Australian film director Peter Weir has been announced as the inaugural recipient of the Australian Film Television and Radio School’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Peter will receive the Award – presented by Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) Council Chair, Rachel Perkins – at the Sydney Film Festival on Wednesday June 10. On that…

Production wraps on First Nations led horror The Debt

Production has wrapped in Adelaide on new horror The Debt, the latest feature film to come out of South Australia’s successful Film Lab: New Voices initiative from the South Australian Film Corporation (SAFC), Screen Australia and the Adelaide Film Festival (AFF). The debut feature from writer Piri Eddy and Yankunytjatjara writer Pearl Berry, Yankunytjatjara producer Lilla Berry, and director Johanis Lyons-Reid, The Debt is breaking ground as the first feature film…

Interview: Sam Voutas

Film festival season is in full swing across Australia, with the Sydney Film Festival just weeks away. For audiences, it’s often the first glimpse at the Australian films likely to generate the most buzz over the next 12 months. This year’s program features an impressive lineup of local feature films, including Yesterday Island, one of…

Production wraps on The Spierig Brothers’ action-horror Headless

Production has wrapped on the action-horror feature Headless, a contemporary reimagining of the Headless Horseman mythology. Directed by acclaimed filmmaking duo The Spierig Brothers (Daybreakers) and produced by Queenslanders Chris Brown (Beast of War) and Diana Le Dean (Sting), Headless brings together local creatives, crew and post-production companies from across the state’s screen industry. Filmed…