Welcome to the latest episode of the Cinema Australia Podcast. It gives me great pleasure to bring you this deep dive interview with filmmaker Matthew Holmes. I’ve been following Matthew’s work since the release of The Legend of Ben Hall back in 2016. Since then I’ve eagerly awaited Matthew’s followup films. His passion and tenacity makes…
Yesterday I published my interview with Seriously Red writer, creator and star Krew Boylan, so who better to follow it up with today than Krew’s co-star, Daniel Webber. I’ve admired Daniel’s work since first seeing him in Rhys Graham’s 2013 drama, Galore, in which his acting ability was on full display. In this rowdy and…
Within the space of a few days I was treated to multiple screenings of the new Australian dramedy, Seriously Red, and in that same amount of time I interviewed the film’s writer, creator and star, Krew Boylan, twice. On the first occasion I watched the film, it was at home ahead of a Zoom interview…
I’m well aware that it’s a cliché to describe a fresh filmmaking talent as “one to keep an eye on”, but in Alice Maio Mackay’s case there’s no better way for me to introduce this extrordinarly talented young filmmaker. And when I say young, I mean it literally. At just eighteen years old, Alice is…
Australia’s internationally acclaimed Back to Back Theatre, a professional theatre company with an ensemble of actors with disabilities at its core, revealed their new film Shadow to the world when it screened at SXSW earlier this year where the film was awarded the SXSW Visions Audience Award. Shadow is directed by Bruce Gladwin, co-produced by Alice Fleming…
As far as acting gigs go for someone just starting out in their career, Rebecca Leafe has hit the jackpot. The Perth-based actor has just wrapped filming on Adam Morris’ Frank and Frank (or The Valley and The Walrus: Ruminations on the Mystery from Soup to Nuts) starring opposite Myles Pollard in the Albany-shot drama which also…
Senses of Cinema explores the history of the co-op film movements of Sydney and Melbourne. This incredibly insightful and highly important documentary comes from two of the major figures in Australian documentary who were intimately involved in the filmmaking groundswell that first emerged in the 1960s, John Hughes and Tom Zubrycki. Featuring the like of Philip…
18-year-old Jay has had enough of life. 28-year-old Liz can’t get enough of it. And as Jay (Jordan Dulieu) stands on a cliff top contemplating putting an end to the meaningless fog of his existence, Liz (Freyja Benjamin) lands in town on the latest leg of her endless adventures backpacking the globe. After a sliding doors moment brings…
Ride tracks the lives and careers of Sam and Alise Willoughby, two champions who fall in love and conquered the world of BMX, an extreme sport where every race is a dance with danger. Sam rises from the suburbs of Adelaide to become a world champion and Olympic medallist. But in this sport crashes are common,…
The premise for Ribspreader is a riot. The hard to stomach, laugh-out-loud, blood-soaked gorefest follows ex-tobacco icon Bryan (Tommy Darwin) who’s transformed into the violent and grotesque Ribspreader – a masked crusader on a mission to hunt down smokers and violently extinguishing them. Without going too deep, Ribspreader is an exploration of addiction and tobacco…
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