At this year’s 70th Sydney Film Festival, the $40,000 Sustainable Future Award will be presented to a film that explores the social, economic, political, and environmental consequences of climate change and highlights the urgent need for action to mitigate its effects. With the Sustainable Future Award increased from $10,000 to $40,000 in its third year,…
Watandar: My Countryman, the new documentary from writer, director and producer Jolyon Hoff (The Staging Post), will begin a series of screenings in cinemas around Australia from May 30. The film is the story of Muzafar Ali, an internationally renowned Afghani photographer who arrived in Australia as a refugee. When Muzafar discovers that Afghans have…
Following a successful world premiere at the recent WA Made Film Festival, Perth-shot action thriller Rampage Electra is set to take local audiences by storm with two screenings of the new film set for Luna Leederville next week. Written, directed and produced by Hassibullah Kushkaki, Rampage Electra follows Hannah Electra (Mikayla Levy), a young woman who has been expelled from…
Delta Goodrem is currently filming in the Whitsundays for the romantic feature film Love is in the Air, supported by the Queensland Government through Screen Queensland. Produced by Brisbane-based company Jaggi Entertainment (formerly The Steve JaggiCompany), Delta Goodrem stars as Dana Randall, a seaplane pilot flying in the tropics who finds herself falling for the…
Madman Entertainment has today released the official trailer for The Giants ahead of its Australian cinema release on April 20, 2023. The Giants explores the intertwined fates of trees and humans in this cinematic portrait of environmental folk hero and gay icon Bob Brown who took green politics to the centre of power. From a…
Ryan Silvey’s impressive debut short, Entangled, has won the inaugural Best of the Fest award at the 2023 WA Made Film Festival. The new dramedy, written and directed by Silvey, follows two friends, a young couple, and a family, all of who have deep secrets that slowly unravel over one dramatic night in a Perth bar.…
Pancake Originals have been awarded completion funding from Queer Screen at the opening night of the Mardi Gras Film Festival launch in Sydney, for Gabriel Carrubba’s remarkable debut feature, Sunflower. Sunflower tells the story of Leo, a seventeen-year-old boy struggling to understand and embrace his sexuality as he comes of age in the working-class suburbs on Melbourne’s edge.…
PRESS RELEASE Screenwest has announced that two family features, Whale Shark Jack and Drone Racers, have been greenlit for production, with both films set to commence filming later in 2023 in Western Australia’s Gascoyne and Pilbara regions, respectively. With major production investment from Screen Australia in association with Screenwest, Lotterywest and the Western Australian Regional…
A trailer has dropped for Love Me Lex ahead of the web series’ world premiere screening at the WA Made Film Festival next week. Love Me Lex explores what it’s like being a lesbian on the ‘other side’ of 45 looking for love through the eyes of Lex Adamson. Just as she meets the perfect woman in…
Australia-based Bronte Pictures has signed a deal with Archstone Entertainment, who will take three of the Australian production company’s films to market in 2023, launching at this week’s EFM in Berlin. The new Bronte titles added to Archstone’s catalogue cover three genres: The Greatest Surf Movie In The Universe (Adult comedy/animation); Kane (action) and The…
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