Four Australian films have beaten over 1,500 international entries to take honours in the 2018 SCINEMA International Science Film Festival. The Kingdom, the untold story of how fungi shaped our world; Grassroots, a story of Aussie battlers fighting climate change; iRony, an adaptation of an award-winning poem and ABC’s Catalyst: The Secret to Making Better…
Produced by Jessica Pearce Directed by Sarah Hickey Written by Jessica Pearce, Sarah Hickey, Alexandra Hines and Chloe Martin Starring Alexandra Hines, Chloe Martin, Joshua Hine, Liam Seymour, Luke Goodall, Marc Gallagher, Matt Trubiani, Tegan Crowley Production Company Monster and Bear Digital Platform YouTube What’s it about? Dee-Brief is a 9-part dramedy series (and three x thirty minute episode series for broadcast)…
Last year Cinema Australia was invited to visit the set of Luke Sparke’s new Aussie Sci-Fi, Occupation. While we were there we caught up with a handful of cast to discuss their roles in the new film. In part one of our series, we speak with actor Zachary Garred. Zachary’s previous credits include General Hospital, Home…
Written and Directed by David Harris Produced by Tanya Dharmapala Starring Jeremy Levi, Kylie Maree, Kiran Wilson Digital Platform YouTube The Series: When Lucifer becomes fed up with his public image, he hires a publicist to rebrand him. Advocate is a West Australian web series, written and Directed by David Harris. The pilot episode was the winner of the…
Written, directed & produced by Mark Day and Heather Joan Day Starring Tanya Alers, Emily Renna, Stefan Miranda, Sean Miranda, Erina Yamada, Nick Jaquinot and Ellen Grimshaw Production Company Vivienne Productions Digital Platform YouTube Everything’s Going To Be Fine is an intimate story about two young Melbournians struggling to communicate that they’re not doing okay.…
Cinema Australia has been given this exclusive clip of writer/director/actor Britt Kynde’s new indie comedy, Cursed to share with our readers. When a neighbour places a curse on their share house, three housemates, two dead brothers and a delivery man are forced to live together or die trying. Kynde stars in the film alongside Elora Wilson, Paul Tucker, Dave…
“I’m really interested to see this film and see the dichotomy between comedy and truth which really is my flavour,” said Susan Prior when I asked her about her new film, Book Week, which recently wrapped filming. Book Week is an anticipated new film from director Heath Davis, who made his directorial debut with the 2016…
Lenny in Love Directed by Jonathon Gittus Written by Jonathon Gittus Produced by Jonathon Gittus Starring Alex “Stingray” Steiner, Harléne Hercules, Stanley Roach and Niramonh Thomson Production Company (N/A) Digital Platform YouTube SYNOPSIS Lenny in Love is a five-part web series that tells the story of Lenny, whose growing infatuation with a local fish and chip shop employee begins to threaten his…
Brother’s Nest Directed by Clayton Jacobson Written by Jamie Browne and Chris Pahlow Produced by Jason Byrne and Clayton Jacobson Starring Shane Jacobson, Clayton Jacobson, Kim Gyngell, Lynette Curran and Sarah Snook. by Matthew Eeles We’re making it official. 2018 is the year of Shane Jacobson. The Australian comedian will star in five feature films…
We put the call out to our readers to put forward their questions for Sweet Country director Warwick Thornton. We asked him a handful of those questions and the director was more than happy to answer. Cinema Australia’s Matthew Eeles sat down with Thornton to discuss a range of topics including working with his son…
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