Ewen Leslie was just nine years old when he started acting professionally. It was on a popular children’s television series called Ship to Shore, filmed in and around Rockingham – a small coastal town about forty minutes south of Perth. After graduating from WAAPA in 2000, Leslie’s first feature film role was in Matthew Newton’s…
Cinema Australia’s Matthew Eeles sits down with actor Aaron Pedersen to discuss his new film, Killing Ground. Aaron also gives us the skinny on the new Mystery Road TV series directed by Rachel Perkins and starring Judy Davis and Colin Friels. This interview also includes two clips and a trailer for Killing Ground. A special…
He’s one of Australia’s most gifted actors and in Romi Trower’s What If It Work? he gives one of the best performances of the year along with an equally impressive Anna Samson. Cinema Australia caught up with the very funny, very casual and very talented Luke Ford. “I’ve always told myself that I don’t want…
Cinema Australia’s Matthew Eeles caught up with Meal Tickets director Mat de Koning at The Backlot Perth to discuss his insightful new rockumentary which explores life in a rock band from the point of view of Perth rockers The Skrewtop Detonators and Will Stoker & The Embers. Meal Tickets is screening at this year’s Revelation Perth International…
The School’s out Written by Matthew Eeles Filming has wrapped on The School, a supernatural horror by first-time feature director, Storm Ashwood. A very relaxed Ashwood was deep in post production when we spoke to him recently from his Sydney home. “The editor is surprised how easily everything is coming together,” an excited Ashwood told…
There was no other Australian we were anticipating more than Ben Young’s Perth-shot feature film debut, Hounds of Love. We’re pleased to say, it didn’t disappoint. We sat down with actor Stephen Curry to discuss his disturbing new role in great detail. It’s a must watch for all young actors wanting to learn how to…
When I told Jack Thompson I was calling from Fremantle in Western Australia, he was quick to let me know how fond he was of the Port City. In the mid-90s, Thompson acted in Graeme Rattigan’s Under The Lighthouse Dancing which was shot just off Fremantle on the west coast’s most famous island playground, Rottnest.…
