National Film and Sound Archive of Australia digitally restores the first official Australia-Canada feature coproduction, set to screen in Melbourne and Canberra from August. Bruce Beresford’s 1991 film Black Robe, the first feature film co-produced by Australia and Canada, has been digitally restored by the National Film and Sound Archive’s NFSA Restores program. The new…
Directed by Aaron Warwick Written by Domenic Di Mento, Steven Carnuccio and Daniel Pike Produced by Domenic Di Mento, Steven Carnuccio, Daniel Pike, Waseem Khan and Aaron Warwick Starring Domenic Di Mento, Steven Carnuccio, Bonnie Ferguson, Maha Wilson, Cramer Cain, Waseem Khan, Erin Connor and Tia Naris Co-written by Highlight Pictures The struggle to forge…
Cinema Australia Original Content: Home was first discovered on the stage from a contemporary adaptation of Belgian playwright Maurice Maeterlinck’s 1894 one-act play Intérieur. Full of crushing innocence and fleeting flourished of life masquerading between the darker recesses of death and the human condition, such was its impact that it had that writer and director…
Directed by Iain Knight and Nick Garner “It’s a fascinating film, especially in an era of increasingly straitened and conservative artistic standards.” Written by Guest Reviewer Travis Johnson Acclaimed and controversial Australian artist Keith Looby is the subject of this fascinating documentary from directors Iain Knight and Nick Garner. For those outside or adjacent to the Australian…
Cinema Australia Original Content: by Matthew Eeles Davo Hardy is one of the hardest working independent filmmakers in Australia. Since 2015 Hardy has written, edited, directed and produced an impressive four feature films including family drama The Lives We Lead, supernatural horror Hunting for Shadows and A Silent Agreement – the first Australian feature film…
Cinema Australia Original Content: Written and Directed by Jeremy Dylan Produced by Jaime Lewis Featuring Tommy Emmanuel, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Sir Barry Gibb, Olivia Newton-John, John Oates, John Petrucci, Steve Wariner, John Knowles and Rick Price “Tommy Emmanuel fans will no doubt get a lot out of this.” Written by Guest Reviewer Travis Johnson This…
Cinema Australia Original Content: Help us continue to bring you more Australian film coverage by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Directed by Zoe Pepper Written by Adriane Daff, Zoe Pepper and Tim Watts Produced by Susannah Day Article by Zoe Pepper Adriane Daff, Tim Watts and I all studied together at WAAPA a…
Cinema Australia Original Content: By Matthew Eeles A remake of Newsfront has been announced. This modern retelling of Phillip Noyce’s 1978 classic will be directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse, who will again team up with The Dressmaker costume designer Marion Boyce to bring the characters of Len Maguire, Frank Maguire, Amy Mackenzie, Chris Hewitt, Fay and…
Please help us continue to support Australian cinema. Celeste (Radha Mitchell) was once Australia’s most beloved opera singer. Yet she threw it all away to follow the man she loved to live on a crumbling property deep in the rainforests of Tropical North Queensland. Ten years after his tragic death, Celeste is ready to make one final…
Article by Seaton Kay-Smith If I spend too long without making something, I get itchy fingers. I work as the Head of Development and Head Writer at Paper Moose, a creative agency in Surry Hills and we regularly make web videos and branded content for an array of companies – however, there is a difference…
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