Help us continue to cover more Australian films and festivals by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. New Australian YA comedy Sweethurt will have its world premiere in Sydney next month. Written and directed by Tom Danger (Lead Me Astray), Sweethurt explores two interwoven stories of love, friendship, and the paralysing fear of dying alone. Jacob (Rav Ratnayake) embarks…
Cinema Australia Original Content: Help us continue to cover more Australian films and festivals by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Young Sydney actor Zachary Wan has launched his feature film career with Never Too Late, co-starring alongside some of the biggest names in Australian film including Jacki Weaver, Jack Thompson, Roy Billing, Max Cullen and…
Directed by Michael Winner Written by Erich Segal and Hugh Atkinson Starring Michael Crawford, Stanley Baker, Ryan O’Neal, Charles Aznavour, Athol Compton Written by Gavin Bond While there are a handful of well documented international film productions that were shot on Aussie soil back in the day (The Sundowners, Summer of The Seventeenth Doll, On…
The inaugural Sydney Science Fiction Film Festival (SSFFF) has announced its line-up which including a bunch of exciting Australian films. Under the patronage of internationally renowned director, Australia’s own Alex Proyas (Dark City, I, Robot, The Crow) and festival director Simon Foster, the SSFFF will run from November 19 to 21 at the state-of-the-art Actors…
Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Thanks to our friends at Roadshow, we’ve got five double passes up for grabs to see new Australian film, Rams. In remote Western Australia, two estranged brothers, Colin (Sam Neill) and Les (Michael Caton), are at war. Raising separate flocks of sheep…
Australian independent feature film, Fragmentary, is now available to stream on Amazon Prime and iTunes. The quirky, and offbeat drama follows Ben Sanderson, a man who believes he can travel to an alternate reality under the influence of alcohol to see the love of his life who was murdered in his reality two years before. Fragmentary…
The first trailer has dropped for Roderick MacKay’s highly anticipated, WA-shot, The Furnace. Set in the 1890s gold rush of Western Australia, The Furnace tells the story of an unlikely hero, navigating greed and the search for identity in a new land. The Furnace illuminates the forgotten history of Australia’s ‘Ghan’ cameleers, who were predominantly Muslim…
Cinema Australia Original Content: Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. If you’ve never seen a film starring Roy Billing, you have no business listening to this Podcast. We’re joking of course, but Billing has been acting since the 80’s and has starring in many Australian films including…
Australian Christmas movies are few and far between, so today’s announcement that Stan are currently in production on A Sunburnt Christmas is an exciting one. The last festive film released in Australia was Craig Anderson’s brutal horror, Red Christmas. And let’s face it, that film didn’t exactly spread any joy. For what it’s worth, Cinema…
Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. One of the Gold Coast’s key cultural events is recruiting for a new Festival Director, following the resignation of CEO/Festival Director Lucy Fisher. The Board of Gold Coast Film Fantastic Ltd which oversees the Gold Coast Film Festival and a year…
Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Win one of ten double passes to see Never Too Late. It has been a long time since Caine, Bronson, Angus and Wendell, AKA, ‘The Chain Breakers’, escaped the torturous Vietnamese POW camp. They now find themselves sharing a new prison,…
Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. A trailer has dropped for How Do You Know Chris? The new Australian drama follows an inherently flawed chameleon, Chris Black, who throws a party at his inner-city Melbourne apartment for people who have been prominent players in his life. But the…
Riley Sugars Director, Writer & Co-Producer Ruby Betts Producer Jon Grosland Producer Danny Field Cinematographer Phoenix Waddell Production Designer Chloe Graham Editor Leon Ross Original Score Gemma Stack Sound Designer Set in late 1960’s Australia, Henry and his father George stand in the field, hunting. They are two different kinds of men and George’s overpowering nature dominates Henry’s life. George envisages success for Henry,…
Cinema Australia Original Content: Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. “I had a lot of support with the whole cast and the crew and everyone knowing it was my first feature, but also I just had a ball.” It’s hard to believe Bloody Hell is Meg Fraser’s…
Hot Mess is available to stream on Netflix from today. Directed by Lucy Coleman, Hot Mess is funny, charming, rambunctious, and blushingly candid. The independent Australian comedy follows 25-year-old Loz (Sarah Gaul), a wannabe writer who seems intent on sabotaging her own success. Tipped to receive a coveted writer-in-residence gig with a cutting- edge theatre group, the…
