Rialto Distribution has announced that the new Australian musical The Deb will hit cinemas nationwide from January 15, with the official trailer now available. Set in the drought-stricken town of Dunburn, The Deb follows big-hearted farm girl Taylah Simpkins, whose dreams of shining at the annual Debutante Ball are turned upside down by her sharp-witted city cousin Maeve. …
Cinema Australia is thrilled to introduce readers to the ensemble cast of Matthew Holmes’ new film, The Sundowner. Telling the story of a war-scarred swagman who is forced on the run after becoming implicated in a brutal murder in the blistering outback of 1934, The Sundowner unites a large ensemble cast that blends award-winning Australian…
Actor Daniel Fischer opens YAS Studio in February 2026, giving young people a creative home to explore acting, animation, filmmaking and photography. Melbourne is about to gain its first dedicated multi-disciplinary youth screen studio, with the launch of YAS Studio in Kensington in February 2026. Construction on the new creative space is currently underway, with…
It’s hard to believe that Kostadinos Hatzivalsamis’ new film Tracy is the first narrative feature made about Cyclone Tracy — the tragic and devastating natural disaster that struck Darwin on Christmas Day in 1974. Considering Australia’s adoration for films based on true events (Chopper, Red Dog and Rabbit-Proof Fence come to mind), and considering the…
An astral traveller and a detective risk everything to save a child from the clutches of a rogue demon in Dean Butler’s Terror by Night, which is now available to stream below via Alter. The film concludes the Evenfall trilogy, which began with Evenfall and continued with A Shadow in the Darkness. Shadow proved a…
Mitchell Holland’s award-winning thriller Unboxing has officially arrived on Prime Video, inviting audiences into a dark, suspense driven mystery where internet fame comes at the ultimate cost. Winner of the ABC iView Pitch Competition at Melbourne WebFest 2019, Unboxing follows Tom Faker (played by Holland), a wannabe streamer hungry for fame, who orders a ‘mystery…
Yurlu | Country was announced as the winner of the 2025 Walkey Documentary Award at the Walkley Awards ceremony in Sydney last night. Yurlu | Country is a feature documentary from six-time Walkley Award winning Australian director Yaara Bou Melhem, co-created with Banjima Elder Maitland Parker, which immerses us in Maitland’s final year as he strives to…
Australian cinematographer Benjamin Bryan has been awarded the prestigious Golden Frog, the top honour at EnergaCamerimage Festival in Poland, for his work on Kasimir Burgess’ breathtaking feature documentary, Iron Winter. Selected from a competitive field of six feature documentaries at the closing ceremony on November 23rd, Jury president Nancy Schreiber ASC awarded the prize, saying…
AACTA, Sanctuary Pictures, Umbrella Entertainment and the Wake in Fright Trust today announced The Harvest, written and directed by emerging filmmaker Darcy Conlan, as the 2025 recipient of the Wake in Fright Development Initiative. Conlan will receive $30,000 in funding and dedicated development support to take the project toward production. The Wake in Fright Development…
Deadhouse Films today announced production will commence in early 2026 on its dark Gen-Z thriller, Crashout. Written and directed by Nick Annas, Crashout will be produced by Helen Tuck and Enzo Tedeschi, with Umbrella Entertainment handling theatrical distribution across Australia and New Zealand. Blending psychological horror with sharp, distinctively Australian humour, Crashout explores the modern…
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