Cinema Australia’s Matthew Eeles caught up with actor, writer, producer, director, Oscar-nominee and Golden Globe and AFI winner Rachel Griffiths to discuss her new film, Ride Like a Girl, based on the inspirational true story of Melbourne Cup winning Jockey, Michelle Payne. As a little girl, Michelle Payne dreams of the impossible: winning the Melbourne…
Cinema Australia Original Content: Help us continue to bring you more Australian film coverage by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Cinema Australia’s Matthew Eeles caught up with director Sophie Hyde (52 Tuesdays) to discuss her new film, Animals. Directed by Hyde, written by Emma Jane Unsworth based on her acclaimed novel of the same…
Cinema Australia Original Content: Help us continue to bring you more Australian film coverage by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Writer and director Jennifer Kent talks us through the making of her horrific and deeply affecting masterpiece, The Nightingale. You can read our full review of the film here. “I really wanted the violence…
Cinema Australia Original Content: Help us continue to bring you more Australian film coverage by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Here’s a note for anyone researching Marta Dusseldorp’s career: Regardless of what her IMDb filmography tells you, Marta did not star in 52 episodes of children’s animated television series, Sea Princesses. “I didn’t ever…
It’s been 22 years since Steven Vidler directed Blackrock, a teenage drama about the rape and murder of a young schoolgirl starring Heath Ledger in his first feature film role. Since them the AFTRS and VCA graduate who also holds a research PhD in screenwriting from Macquarie University, has had a long and successful acting career starring…
Cinema Australia Original Content: Help us continue to bring you more Australian film coverage by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. I’ve never been as moved by an Australian documentary as I was by The Australian Dream. It moved me because of the subject obviously, but I was also moved by it because I’m…
Cinema Australia Original Content: Cinema Australia’s Matthew Eeles caught up with Bryan Brown to discuss the Australian acting legend’s new film, Palm Beach. Palm Beach features an all-star cast of Australian screen legends including Golden Globe-nominated icons Bryan Brown (Australia Day), Sam Neill (The Daughter), Oscar nominee Richard E. Grant (Gosford Park), Greta Scacchi (The…
Writer, director and producer Davo Hardy and actor Richard Littlehales join the Cinema Australia Podcast to discuss their new film, The Blood of God. Though ostensibly about Christianity, The Blood of God is really about a father/son relationship as their philosophical discussions on faith are put to the ultimate test when the father’s strict doctrines…
Cinema Australia Original Content: In this episode of the Cinema Australia Podcast host Matthew Eeles chats with filmmaker Andrew Garton about his new documentary Forged From Fire which charts the valleys and peaks of the heartwarming project known as The Blacksmiths Tree. On Black Saturday, 7 February 2009, townships north-east of Melbourne were engulfed by firestorms.…
Cinema Australia Original Content: Standing up for Sunny will be the fifth Australian feature film released this year featuring a disabled actor in a major role including Reflections in the Dust, Pulse, Kairos and Ride Like a Girl. While the other four films are heavy on drama, Standing up for Sunny reminds us to laugh…
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