Welcome to Cinema Australia’s brand new feature, Trailer of the Day. Each day we’ll be aiming to bring you a trailer of an Australian film – new or old. We’ll be including a few fun facts about the film featured as well as screening information and release dates for new films. We also hope to include…
“I once filmed a couple who lost a child to cancer and they were so raw and fragile and broken. It’s that depth of truth that becomes the measuring point. It tells me if I’m getting this level of truth from my performances.” – Kim Farrant. Interview by Matthew Eeles: Strangerland is your first feature…
Written by Luke Griffiths (director): Scarlett, is an assassin turned rogue when her son is kidnapped by an enigmatic organisation who wish to control her for a unique talent she possesses. For years she has walked a violent and bloody path in search of her son, but now the path ends as she is brought…
“We were on an incredibly tight deadline, our location for the film’s opening scene was almost wrecked by a freak thunder/hail storm and Daniel Hill broke one of his ribs.” Growing Out: Written by Andrew Walsh Matt and Dan have been close friends since they were 5 years old: they attended the same school, played…
After the recent success of the pitch trailer for Long Shadows, including the successful crowd-funding campaign exceeding it’s target of 20k, and three US film festival awards, producers Linda Millar, Ashley Pardey, Jessica Magro and Darrell Plumridge are excited to commence pre-production of the feature film with shooting scheduled to commence soon. Directed by Darwin…
The Melbourne International Film Festival revealed a sneak peak of its 2015 program today and it’s got the Cinema Australia team very excited. Some highlights of the program include Grant Scicluna’s Downriver, Neil Armfield’s highly anticipated Holding the Man, and short film The Nice House, following 2015 Australian of the Year and domestic violence campaigner Rosie Batty. The…
“The theme stayed the same, it was a shift in tone that was needed.” Written exclusively for Cinema Australia by Josef Ber: I started writing the script for Jack’s Promise a few years ago. I wanted to explore a character who was struggling with his past choices and wasn’t in the greatest of places in…
“It was a surreal, occasionally out-of-body experience.” Written by Matt Holcomb exclusively for Cinema Australia: I have made only a handful of short films – far less than I would have liked to have made at this point. I don’t consider myself to be a natural short-form storyteller; it’s just not something that comes easily to…
“Anyone familiar with the attention span of a seven-year-old will understand this was no easy task.” Written by Alister Grierson exclusively for Cinema Australia: Imagination Game began, like many ideas, as a conversation on a bus. My wife, Skye, had stumbled across a cult of conspiracy theorists online who had bought into the idea that…
There are quite a few secrets surrounding the plot of Red Billabong. Going by the recently released teaser poster we know it’s a creature feature of sorts – those beaming red eyes in the sky give that away. But what is it stalking two brothers as they search for their missing friend in the Australian Outback?…
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