When Australian filmmaker Sophia Turkiewicz was seven years old, her Polish mother, Helen, abandoned her in an Adelaide orphanage. Sophia never forgot this maternal act of betrayal. Now in middle age, as Sophia examines her troubled relationship with Helen, she discovers the story behind Helen’s miraculous wartime escape from a Siberian gulag, her subsequent survival…
Written by Neil Triffett (director): I’ve been fascinated by Emos for a while. There’s something admirable about people who accept life is full of misery while the rest of us are pretending we are happy and emotionally stable. To place an Emo – a sarcastic, despondent Emo youth – inside a light-hearted musical comedy creates instant…
Rev is very much a work in progress. Since 1990, the event has developed from a range of alternative and independent screen culture activities and experiments to what is regarded as one of Australia’s most unique annual screen activities. Taking place in cinemas, bars and clubs around the country this strange brew embraced live music,…
Once again, the City of Vincent, in association with FTI is commissioning a short series of films . The project aims to represent the City of Vincent, its residents and their stories, as well as provide emerging filmmakers with an opportunity to showcase their film making abilities. The successful applicants will receive $4000 cash and up to…
The first images of Gorge Miller’s Mad Max reboot have been revealed via Entertainment Weekly’s website. The disaster riddled production of Mad Max: Fury Road stars Tom Hardy as Max, Charlize Theron and Nicholas Hoult. The film opens in 2015. Fingers crossed. You can see more photos on Entertainment Weekly’s website here.
When director Chris Sun wrote exclusively for Cinema Australia about his new film Charlie’s Farm our servers almost blew their tops as it quickly became one of our most read articles. Readers in Queensland will be keen to know the following message was recently posted on the film’s Facebook page. Charlie’s Farm is proud to…
Cinema Australia had the pleasure of attending the 26th Annual WA Screen Award nominations tonight, Tuesday, 24th June. FTI announced the successful 2014 nominees for the 26th annual WA Screen Awards (WASAs) on Tuesday 24 June 2014 at PICA Bar in the Perth Cultural Centre. The WA Screen Awards (WASAs) is the premier celebration of West…
The latest feature from Perth film-making partners, John V. Soto and Deidre Kitcher, will screen at select Australian cinemas in September 2014. Filmscope Entertainment (Filmscope) is pleased to announce that their highly anticipated crime thriller, THE RECKONING, starring Jonathan LaPaglia and Luke Hemsworth, has been sold in multiple international territories by sales agents Lightning Entertainment. Lightning Entertainment have sold rights to the film…
“Initially this was conceived as an art piece of purely stop-motion scans which proved problematic in terms of storytelling and narrative flow.” Written by Shahane Bekarian (director): The Blind Passenger is not your usual short film. It’s kinda fucked up. It’s a concept film taken from the point of view of a blind man, about…
The Babadook is a psychological thriller starring Essie Davis (The Matrix, Girl With a Pearl Earring, Australia) as a single mother plagued by the violent death of her husband. When a disturbing storybook called ‘Mr. Babadook’ turns up at her house she is forced to battle with her son’s deep seated fear of a monster. Soon she discovers a sinister…
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