Multiple award-winning filmmaker Cathy Henkel will take her latest documentary, Rise of the Eco-Warrior on a road trip during March. Beginning in Byron Bay and wrapping up in Perth all sessions will be accompanied by a Q&A session with the director. Rise of the Eco-Warriors follows a group of adventurous young people as they leave…
PRESS RELEASE: Burns Point, a crime drama directed by Tim Blackburn, is starting production in the first week of March, 2014. The film is Tim Blackburn’s feature film directorial debut. Tim has directed several successful short films, most notably Monobrow – a finalist in the Australian 2013 Tropfest short film festival (aka The Largest Short Film Festival…
The 8th Byron Bay International Film Festival is set to showcase an abundance of Australian filmmaking talent when it launches tomorrow. The festival runs until Sunday 9th March, 2014 and will be screening over 50 Australian short films, music videos, documentaries and animations as well as international ones. Below is a a complete list of…
A brand new website was launched today for WA filmed, The Reckoning. 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 footage contains the identity of his…
Starring Mia Wasikowska (Rogue) and Adam Driver (HBO’s Girls, Frances Ha, Inside Llewyn Davis), directed by John Curran (The Painted Veil, We Don’t Live Here Anymore) and from the Oscar® winning producers of The King’s Speech, Tracks is based on the inspirational and iconic true story of Robyn Davidson. Robyn’s phenomenal solo trek from Alice…
Tim Winton’s The Turning is released on DVD and Blu-Ray today. Discover an extraordinary filmmaking collaboration in TIM WINTON’S THE TURNING. Eighteen talented Australian directors from diverse artistic disciplines each create a chapter of the hauntingly beautiful novel by multi award-winning author Tim Winton. The linking and overlapping stories explore the extraordinary turning points in…
Who is Mick Taylor? We all know he’s the last person you’d want to come across in the outback and that he’s a foreign backpacker’s worst nightmare. He’s especially aggressive towards the English and loves to dismember people from head to toe. But what motivates his seemingly senseless killings? An abusive upbringing? An equally deranged…
The Australian outback is a lonely, isolated place the perfect playground for a sadistic serial killer with a penchant for bloodthirsty sport. A red wasteland, the stifling, oppressive heat isn¹t the only menace that should be feared. Bored with the so-called commercial tourism of the city, young and idealistic backpackers Rutger (Phillipe Klaus, Devil¹s…
Those who missed Robert Connolly’s adaptation of Tim Winton’s The Turning at the cinema are in for a treat this Sunday night… and you don’t even have to leave you home. ABC1 will be screening the omnibus on Sunday, 23rd February at 9.40. Seventeen talented Australian directors from diverse artistic disciplines each create a chapter…
“I’m definitely not going to hire some bozo to spew one out just to make some quick bucks.” Interview by Matthew Eeles Thanks to Wolf Creek and its world famous outback serial killer, Mick Taylor, Greg Mclean has become one of Australia’s most recognisable directors. Almost a decade after his terrifying feature film debut and…
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