“I love my country. I love being here and I’d love to make more films here.” You graduated from NIDA as an actor and have credits dating back to the later years of A Country Practice. You didn’t direct your first film until 2005, around about the same time you stopped acting. What made you…
Lost Art’s latest feature had its world premiere 24th November 2013 at the Nova Cinema for Melbournes best cult film festival, Monsterfest. Soon to be playing at festivals around the world. Stay tuned as more details come to hand… Synopsis: Warren is a lonely ice-cream van driver. Selling ice-cream in Melbourne’s roughest neighbourhood isn’t an…
Transmission have released a first look at Nicole Kidman and Joseph Fiennes in a scene from the highly anticipated Strangerland. Looks intense. Hopefully we will be seeing more soon. FIRST LOOK: Nicole Kidman and co-star Joseph Fiennes in Kim Farrant's upcoming STRANGERLAND http://t.co/EZ1mItwTiG— (@transmission) May 13, 2014
“We originally thought it would be a film simply about an interesting way of cooking food, but it grew into a look at life, philosophy, religion, and the Texan way.” Written by director Matthew Salleh Central Texas Barbecue is the third short documentary we have made in the last 12 months. The first, Pablo’s Villa (Watch…
On a cold winter morning Dawn commits a seemingly senseless crime, leaving a man unconscious, but she is running from something bigger. Dawn is harbouring a shattering secret. Taking flight with her young daughter, Steph, they hide out in a remote hills town where she tries to keep her restless daughter from prying eyes. Unpredictable…
With society in decline, the rule of law has disintegrated and life is cheap. Hardened loner Eric travels the desolate towns and roads of the scorched and dangerous Australian outback. When a brutal gang of thieves steals his car and only remaining possession, they leave behind the wounded Rey in their wake. Forcing Rey to…
Written by Rolf de Heer and David Gulpilil as a collaborative project, Charlie’s Country stars Gulpilil as blackfella Charlie, who is getting older, and is out of sorts. The government’s intervention is making life more difficult on his remote community, what with the proper policing of whitefella laws that don’t generally make much sense, and…
It’s seldom such a high quality Australian film is released to a worldwide audience. It was unclear whether or not to get caught up in the international film festival hype, but now it’s official – The Babadook is the first great Australian film of 2014, if not the last couple of years. After his mother…
Australian comedy film festival, Rottofest is calling for comedians, funny people and filmmakers to submit comedy short films and filmed sketch entries to be screened at this year’s Rottofest in September. The funniest selected short films (up to 8 minutes) and filmed sketches (up to 3 minutes) will be judged by a panel of leading…
“Those sort of projects are interesting to me and thrilling as a filmmaker.” Rules of 52 Tuesdays: • The film will be shot once a week, every Tuesday (and only on Tuesdays), over a full year (or 52 Tuesdays). • The film will be shot chronologically; what is shot on a specific Tuesday is what…
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