“I wanted it to feel like everything that had gone wrong in the world was an entirely plausible product of the forces at work today.” I want to go back to the beginning for a moment. You launched your feature film career as a co-writer on American movie, Hesher staring Joseph Gordon-Levitt. How important was…
The Rover has an incredible back story: It’s the near future and Western civilisation has fallen victim to economic collapse. The ancient Australian Outback has found itself host to desperate immigrants from all corners of the globe looking to make a buck in mining. Lack of authority makes it easy for the desperate to exploit…
Features THE DEAD SPEAK BACK Intro and Q&A with sirector Jason Sweeney A stunning feature film debut from writer/director Jason Sweeney, The Dead Speak Back is a powerful, raw, perhaps even primal journal into the experiences of the recently deceased and those left behind. THE LAST GOODBYE – WORLD PREMIERE Intro and Q&A with writer/director/actor…
In anticipation of tonights premiere at the Sydney Film Festival, a new, very short clip has been released for Christopher Houghton’s Touch. The second, more lengthy clip is an hilarious scene from Josh Lawson’s The Little Death. https://twitter.com/Kate_Mulvany/statuses/474695905325490176
Only two Australian feature films are booked to hit cinemas this month and they’re absolute beauties. First off is David Michôd’s followup to his critically acclaimed Animal Kingdom. The Rover’s trailer has been viewed over 1,200,000 times on YouTube – no doubt by Robert Pattinson fan-girls but this is sure to be a rare Australian box-office success. The next cab off the…
Sydney Film Festival and Vivid Ideas present an exclusive event bringing together director David Michôd, producer Liz Watts and actors Guy Pearce and Robert Pattinson, to explore the process behind creating dystopic, desert-noir thriller The Rover and engage in an audience Q&A, moderated by film critic Margaret Pomeranz. A Cannes Official Selection, The Rover delivers…
Cinema Nova will be holding a Galore preview screening followed by a Q&A with director Rhys Graham and actors Toby Wallace, Lily Sullivan and Aliki Matangi held on Wednesday June 18 at 6.30pm. Directed by Rhys Graham (The Turning), Ashleigh Cummings (Puberty Blues), Lily Sullivan (Mental, Rake),Toby Wallace (Return to Nim’s Island) and Aliki Matangi…
48 Hour Tasploitation Challenge Last year, a collection of filmmakers furiously wrote, produced, edited and delivered short horror films within a truly insane 48-hour period. A month later, these films were screened as part of the 2013 Stranger With My Face Horror Film Festival in front of the filmmakers and a collection of peers and various…
A third trailer has been released for John V. Soto’s Perth shot film The Reckoning. Let us know your thoughts. Written and directed by John V. Soto and staring Luke Hemsworth, Viva Bianca, Hanna Mangan Lawrence and Johnathan LaPaglia, The Reckoning is the story of a detective who is trying to track down two teenage runaways whose video…
This time last week we were pleased to announce The Dead Speak Back will screen during this years Revelation Perth International Film Festival. Tonight we’re even more pleased to announce the second Australian feature to screen will be Samantha Rebillet’s The Last Goodbye. Rebillet told Cinema Australia, “I’ve never been to Perth before so I’m very excited about…
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