In this interview, The Fort co-directors Carly Anne Kenneally and Jess Kenneally, who also wrote and stars in the film, share their insights into the making of their new film. Having launched its film festival run in 2021 at CinefestOZ, The Fort faced a setback due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, this unexpected twist extended…
Alena Lodkina’s Petrol will stick to you like glue. If you dive deep enough into the film’s underlying themes and subtext, it will take weeks to shake. In this episode of the Cinema Australia Podcast, Alena joins host Matthew Eeles to take a very deep dive into the making of Petrol which follows Eva (Nathalie…
Writer, director, co-producer, director of photography, editor and composer Ivan Sen and actor Simon Baker join the latest episode of the Cinema Australia Podcast to discuss their masterful new film, Limbo. In Limbo, Simon Baker plays Travis, a jaded detective who arrives in the remote outback town of Limbo to investigate the cold case murder…
Perth filmmaker Scott Quayle joins the latest episode of the Cinema Australia Podcast to discuss his new documentary, The Grey Line – a powerful, eye-opening WA-shot film which tells the story of Helen Dwyer, also known as Ellen Collard. Taken from her parents during a time when Aboriginal children were removed from their families through…
Legendary Australian filmmaker, Rolf de Heer, joins the latest episode of the Cinema Australia Podcast to discuss his new film, The Survival of Kindness. My first introduction to Rolf de Heer was in the mid-nineties when I was a teenager. A friend and I were sitting in his parents’ shed smoking cigarettes and drinking beer…
With their new documentary, The Giants, filmmakers Laurence Billiet and Rachael Antony have created an affectionate portrait of one of Australia’s most recognisable identities – former leader of The Greens Party, staunch environmental activist, folk hero and gay icon, Bob Brown. A follow up to their television hit, Freeman, Laurence and Rachael inject The Giants…
Welcome to the latest episode of the Cinema Australia Podcast. In this episode I’m joined by Jub Clerc, the director and co-writer of the uplifting coming-of-age road movie, Sweet As. I’ve been looking forward to recording an episode with Jub since I first met her while she was in post-production on Sweet As back in…
The world’s most remote rock band, The Desert Stars, will perform in Perth during a special event screening of Gravel Road – Tristan Pemberton’s new documentary about the band and its frontman, Jay Minning. The Desert Stars are traditional land owners of Spinifex Country in the Great Victoria Desert, Western Australia, home of the last…
Welcome to the latest episode of the Cinema Australia Podcast. It’s been a while, but now that the chaos of my film festival, the WA Made Film Festival, is over for another year I’m back doing what I love doing the most, and that’s bring you all the best Australian filmmaking stories through cinemaaustralia.com.au and…
With Of An Age, Goran Stolevski has gifted us with one of the best Australian films so far this century. The film is subtle yet complex, and the love story between two young men, Kol and Adam, which anchors the film’s narrative, is one of the most memorable love stories you’re likely to see in…
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