There’s nothing plane about The Plains. The three hour film follows Andrew, a man in his fifties, on his daily commute to and from work over the course of a year. Occasionally Andrew is joined by David, a colleague who Andrew drives home from time to time. The Plains is set almost entirely inside Andrew’s…
Welcome to the latest episode of the Cinema Australia Podcast. In this episode, host Matthew Eeles is joined by WA-based filmmaker Sarah Legg whose new film Cherubhead is one of the most unique, beautiful, intriguing, and thought-provoking Australian films you’re ever likely to see. It truly is quite unlike anything else. Here’s the synopsis: Marie…
Writer, actor and producer Nick Giannopoulos joins Cinema Australia’s Matthew Eeles to discuss the latest film in his wildly-popular Wog Boys franchise, Wog Boys Forever. In 2000 The Wog Boy broke box office records and became one of the highest grossing Australian films of all time. Ten years later in 2010 the wog boys returned…
Narrated by Margot Robbie and sharing the lives of an eclectic group of women throughout Australia, Sue Thomson’s eye-opening documentary Under Cover shines a light on a devastating reality – women over 50 being the fastest growing cohort experiencing homelessness in Australia. These moving but optimistic portraits reveal the struggles these women face, and lay bare the flaws in our society,…
Esteemed Australian actor Richard Roxburgh joins the latest episode of the Cinema Australia Podcast. To say the recording of this podcast episode was a bit of fun would be an understatement. It’s not every day you get to shoot the breeze with an actor of Richard Roxburgh’s calibre. That was the case for me while…
Welcome to the latest episode of the Cinema Australia Podcast. This is a different episode format than what regular listeners will be used to. Here, I’m chatting with two filmmakers in seperate interviews that were originally recorded for my radio spot on the Community Radio Network. The first interview is with Christine Luby to discuss…
One Punch is a gritty, teen drama about Matt Mercado, a young Italian Australian man on the cusp of adulthood, struggling in his final year at high school and trying to hold on to the friendships and innocence of his youth. On the eve of Matt’s 18th Birthday his domineering father, Carlo, indoctrinates him into…
Like all great documentaries, Franklin goes deep. At its core, it’s a film about the epic seven-year campaign to save Tasmania’s World Heritage-listed Franklin River and the importance of environmental protection, but it also encompasses the intergenerational journey of Oliver Cassidy and his father Mike, while also being a story of Oliver’s personal transformation and self discovery…
Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. If you watch one documentary this year, make it Pub: The Movie. Andrew Leavold’s new film experience takes viewers back in time to an era of Australian pub culture where live music epicentres like St Kilda were wildly energetic and heaving with…
Welcome to the latest episode of Cinema Australia Podcast. Here, host Matthew Eeles is joined by filmmakers Rowan Devereux and Sophie Saville to discuss two of their new films, feature film Evicted! A Modern Romance and short documentary Inspire Me! Evicted! A Modern Romance follows a ragtag bunch of millennial housemates who decide they need to…
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