Cinema Australia Podcast #82 | Kriv Stenders

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Welcome to the latest episode of the Cinema Australia Podcast. It’s been a while since the last episode of the Cinema Australia Podcast, but for those who enjoy listening I’m happy to let you know I will be publishing more regularly in…

Interview: Renée Brack

  Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Interview by Matthew Eeles My mum died of cancer in 2008. She was 48 years old, and I was 24 at the time. I could never imagine being asked questions over and over again about my mum. Questions about her…

Cinema Australia Podcast #81 | Hannah Barlow & Kane Senes

Cinema Australia Original Content: Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Australian filmmakers do a lot of things right. But one thing they do exceptionally well is horror.  Not only do Australian horror films like Wolf Creek, The Loved Ones and The Babadook and timeless classics like Razorback…

Interview: Tim Barretto

Cinema Australia Original Content: Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Related coverage: Read our Bassendream review here. Remember the name Tim Barretto. The filmmaker and photographer has been making movies in Australia, Indonesia and India for over a decade, but his debut dramatic feature film, Bassendream, is his most impressive…

Interview: Helen Thomson

Cinema Australia Original Content: Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Helen Thomson has been acting for more than three decades appearing on stage in productions like Mrs. Warren’s Profession for the Sydney Theatre Company, in films like Gettin’ Square and A Man’s Gotta Do, as well a myriad…

Cinema Australia Podcast #80 | Tiriki Onus & Alec Morgan

Cinema Australia Original Content: Tiriki Onus and Alec Morgan join the Cinema Australia Podcast to discuss their new documentary, Ablaze. Ablaze tells the story of the first Aboriginal filmmaker William ‘Bill’ Onus, a Yorta Yorta and Wiradjuri man from Victoria, a truly heroic cultural and political figure who revived his peopleʼs culture in the 1940s and ignited…

5 minutes with Jackson Tozer

Cinema Australia Original Content: Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. The St Kilda Film Festival kicks off this Friday night, with Riley Sugars’ hilarious comedy short, Hatchback, featuring in the prestigious opening night lineup. A few weeks ago Cinema Australia caught up with Hatchback director Riley Sugars,…

Cinema Australia Podcast #79 | Renée Webster

Cinema Australia Original Content: Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. How to Please a Woman writer and director Renée Webster joins the latest episode of the Cinema Australia Podcast. Renée’s recent directing work includes series one and two of the drama serial The Heights for Matchbox Pictures and…

5 minutes with Riley Sugars

Cinema Australia Original Content: Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Regular Cinema Australia readers may remember this publication spruiking Riley Sugars’ last short film, Rabbits – a heavy-hitting family drama set in late 1960’s Australia. If you watched the film, you will be excited to know that Sugars’…

Cinema Australia Podcast #78 | Joel Jackson

Cinema Australia Original Content: Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Welcome to a very special episode of the Cinema Australia Podcast. As regular listeners will know, discussions on this podcast are usually centred around a particular film, and it’s not often I take listeners on a deep…