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…
Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Trauma cleaners clean spaces that no one else will touch – hoarder sites, meth-labs, murder scenes, deaths and suicides. They clean the homes of some of society’s most vulnerable people – the neglected, the lonely, the addicted, and the mentally unwell. When illness forces…
Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Filmmaker Penelope McDonald’s intimate documentary, Audrey Napanangka, showcases the heartwarming story of Warlpiri woman, Audrey Napanangka and her Sicilian partner Santo as they navigate through colonial systems to keep the children they care for together. Audrey Napanangka was born at a time when…
Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. When Mark Hartley’s video connected during our recent Zoom interview, the first thing I noticed was his enviable collection of Australian movie posters which lined the wall behind him. Posters for films including Wake in Fright, Alvin Purple, Picnic at Hanging…
Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. “I’d make a good mayor.” We’ve all thought it at least once in our lives. But Kalgoorlie-Boulder’s John ‘General Hercules’ Katahanas was determined to make it happen in 2019 when he ran for mayor against John Bowler – a popular and established…
Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Everyone has that one music festival memory they’ll never forget. For me, it was the 2003 Big Day Out in Perth. I had made my way to the very front row to see nu-metal survivors, Deftones. Mid-way through the set the…
Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. I found it hard to sleep after watching The Stranger. Anyone who watches the film will find there’s a lot to unpack. The whole experience kept my mind ticking over that night, and for days afterwards. The Stranger is a grim, gut-wrenching…
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