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…
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…
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…
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…
Madman Entertainment and Bus Stop Films have today launched the trailer for Boss Cat, a new Australian family drama that follows Sonja, a young woman with Trisomy 21 (Down Syndrome), on her quest for independence, empowerment and identity through the performance of Krump dancing. Boss Cat is the world’s first inclusively made feature film, placing…
Production house and distributor Badlands has announced that their feature film The Birthday Trip will release in cinemas nationally on July 30. The trailer for the already-acclaimed indie feature – an unflinchingly funny drama that follows three millennial couples whose relationships are thrown into disarray when they descend on a luxury Southern Highlands farmstay for…
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…
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…
Inspired by one of Australia’s most cheeky bank robberies, The Bank Manager is now available to watch on YouTube. There’s been a story doing the rounds in outback Queensland since 1932, that a group of local larrikins managed to rob two Cloncurry banks and get away with £14,000 – a small fortune at the time. …
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…
An iconic piece of Australian film history is returning to the spotlight in Outback Queensland. The original truck driven by Mick Dundee in the 1986 Australian classic, Crocodile Dundee, will be on public display for one night only at the 2026 Vision Splendid Outback Film Festival in Winton on Saturday, June 27th. Festival-goers and visitors…
Madman Entertainment and Causeway Films have unveiled the teaser 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 with Sam Neill as The…
The Vision Splendid Outback Film Festival has unveiled its 2026 program, promising nine days of Australian cinema, special guests and once-in-a-lifetime experiences in the heart of Outback Queensland. Returning to Winton this June/July, the festival continues to cement its place as Australia’s only outback film festival, where film is experienced not just on screen, but…
Today Umbrella unveiled the official trailer for the upcoming ripper Aussie comedy How to Talk Australians: The Movie, ahead of its nationwide theatrical release on 11 June. How to Talk Australians is based on the hit web series of the same name that became a viral sensation and amassed more than 12 million YouTube views.…
The chilling new Aussie folk horror flick Pelverata will screen at Melbourne’s Eclipse Cinema with director Mark Lipkin in attendance for a special Q&A session. A chilling, thrilling eco-folk horror film that cuts right to the heart of Australia’s relationship with its often-foreboding environment, Pelverata provokes terror and thought in equal measure. Directed by indie…
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