Cinema Australia Original Content: We caught up with actor John Howard to discuss his new film, The Merger, directed by Mark Grentell (Backyard Ashes). The Merger is a hilarious, honest and heartwarming Australian comedy based on comedian Damian Callinan’s critically acclaimed solo show of the same name. Here’s the synopsis: The township of Bodgy Creek has seen…
Cinema Australia Original Content: Endurance, strength, determination, success, broken bones, mechanical destruction, battered egos and death. This is the Finke Desert Race – one of the world’s most difficult off-road courses which runs from Alice Springs to Aputula in the Northern Territory. It’s also the focus of a new documentary, Finke: There and Back, directed by motorbike…
“It’s been wonderful. It’s kind of surprising because the film is my baby,” Strange Colours director Alena Lodkina tells Cinema Australia of the audience reactions to her film so far. From the Gold Coast to Perth, Strange Colours has screened at every major Australian film festival this year with a run scheduled for the upcoming…
A young girl has been raped and murdered in a small Sydney suburb. Her body lies by a river and no one seems to care, especially not the nihilistic adolescents who occupy the community. Husband and wife filmmaking duo Elizabeta and Jack Moxey discuss their new film, Bugs – a gritty observational drama that feels frighteningly real.…
Australian Flyweight champion, Bianca ‘Bam Bam’ Elmir aims to be the first Australian to win a World Amateur Boxing Championship. A Lebanese Muslim from suburban Australia, ‘Bam Bam’ smashes the stereotypes of her family, society and her sport, to prove she is the best in the world. In the wake of a twelve month drug ban, a series…
In this episode of the Cinema Australia Podcast host Matthew Eeles chats with The Second director Mairi Cameron and screenwriter Stephen Lance to discuss their seductive thriller. The Second follows the author of a celebrated erotic memoir, whose newfound success is threatened when her best friend and muse reveals the truth behind the memoir’s provenance,…
by Matthew Eeles Primitive Films has unveiled a bloody poster for director Luke Creely’s new horror short They Can’t Hear You. Co-written by Creely and Jack Coco, They Can’t Hear You is a brief look into an average family’s worst nightmare coming true according to the film’s lead actor PiaGrace Moon. “In my eyes They…
