“Pete Murray’s song, Opportunity, was the first song I taught myself to play on guitar when I was 16, so meeting him to work on a film 8 years later was bizarre and awesome!” by Joanne Kmaid Acting, singing, songwriting… Is there anything else you hope to embark on? Oh definitely entrepreneurship and philanthropy! I…
Revelation Perth International Film Festival in association with Cinema Australia proudly present a celebration of Australian film – past present and future – through a program of monthly screenings. We’d just be positively un-Australian if we didn’t pay a tip of the hat to the footy finals. As our tribute to the great Australian game…
by Matthew Eeles As far as Australian feature films go, you could never accuse Sunset People of having an ordinary concept. A modern-day Australian thriller with an 80’s inspired edge, set in a dream-like, sinister world that revolves around burlesque, drugs, sex, and… blood addicts? “Our Vampires do not have fangs or turn into bats,” Sunset…
With only one other, rather unsettling film to his name, director JJ DeCeglie has created a genuinely hilarious film with Can’t Win. Do Try. Can’t Win. Do Try. follows Gordon, an engaged 25 year old with a fresh mortgage. In a bid to extend his adolescence he convinces his reluctant fiancée to allow his best-friend Jez…
Australian feature film, Landfall, has revived it’s crowdfunding campaign and is calling for your support to help finish the second half of production. Landfall follows a young couple who are trapped in their beach house during a tropical cyclone when three desperate fugitives carrying a mysterious icebox invade their home following a heist. The ensemble cast…
Doing it their way Husband and wife duo Alice Foulcher and Gregory Erdstein – or Greggles as Alice affectionately (and rather cutely) refers to him – are deep in post-production on their new film, That’s Not Me. It’s the story of wanna-be actor Polly (Foulcher) who dreams of making it to the big time. She’s beaten…
“Stop dreaming! We need to have a dream and to protect it, but a dream without work is just a vision and it eventually fades. Put your acting first!” Interview by Joanne Kmaid What was it like meeting Robert De Niro? I met him through a mutual friend, Barry Primus; I was working for Barry at…
“Balancing the true heart of the story with a fun, comic touch took a lot of work.” Interview by Matthew Eeles How long has Spin Out been with you as an idea for a feature film? Co-writer Edwina Exton and I started work on the script in 2004. A long road. Lots of fun researching Bachelor &…
Tasty Written and Directed by Meaghan Palmer Produced by David Morris and Varun Swaminathan Tasty is based on a true event… August, 1994 in Melbourne. Ben (17) lives on the surf coast with his mum and hangs out with his goofy best friend Lolly. Ben tries to fit in, but he feels outside of the world as…
Ahead of the film’s trailer release on Friday, 15 July, we sat down with Perth filmmaker Damian Fasolo to learn a little more about his feature film debut, Broken. Interview by Matthew Eeles Tell us a bit about yourself? I grew up in Perth, Italian descent. When I was 15, my parents came home from…
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