Looking For Grace Written & Directed by: Sue Brooks Starring: Radha Mitchell, Richard Roxburgh, Odessa Young After a teenage girl named Grace goes missing, her parents along with the help of an investigator seek to find her, while also juggling their own secrets and stories between them. Looking For Grace is in cinemas now.
Herbert Pinter is an Australian carpenter-turned-production designer who has worked on film including Storm Boy, Picnic At Hanging Rock, Cloudstreet and Jasper Jones. Storm Boy will be screening on Monday, 18 January as part of Australian Revelations at The Backlot Perth. Featured Image: Herbert Pinter with Cloudstreet producer Brenda Pam. (Source: http://www.herbertpinter.com)
The Film: Tanna Directed by: Bentley Dean, Martin Butler Written by: Bentley Dean, John Collee, Martin Butler Starring: Mangau Dain, Marie Wawa, Marceline Rofit NSW: Sydney – Dendy Newtown – screening now Blue Mountains – Mount Vic Flicks – 19-21 November Orange – Odeon Cinema Orange – November 29 & December 3 Murwillumbah – The Regent Cinema – from 26 November Byron Bay – Byron…
Film producers in Australia don’t come bigger than Richard Brennan. He’s worked on a bunch of incredible Australian films including Mad Dog Morgan, Newsfront and The Last Goodbye. Cinema Australia recently had the pleasure of chatting with Richard ahead of Monday night’s Australian Revelations screening of his 1978 film Long Weekend in Perth. You can hear the interview…
Cut Snake – a mini-masterpiece and an instant Australian classic – hits cinemas today and Cinema Australia recently caught up with the film’s director, Tony Ayres. Tony is travelling around the country presenting his film to audiences followed by Q&A sessions. “Q&A’s are always very hard to judge.” said Ayres. “The people who stay are the people who…
“I think the whole apparatus of theatrical exhibition is being dismantled. It’s not a sustainable business model. It’s twenty dollars to buy a ticket for god’s sake.” Does it feel good to finally be showing Kill Me Three Times to Australian audiences? It feels like it’s been a long time coming. It’s great. It’s a funny…
Cinema Australia readers have been given exclusive access to this great little interview with Luke Hemsworth who talks about his new film, Kill Me Three Times. Luke is a favourite in the Cinema Australia office (we think he’s a little underrated in Oz), so it’s a real treat to hear directly from the man himself…
“Working with Brendan was a dream. We really trusted each other completely to make it as real and as dynamic as possible.” Interview by Matthew Eeles. Did you speak with any of the actors who have portrayed Ruben in the stage play about playing the character, or did you always want to make the film…
“When I started doing damage to others, bringing others down and really disappointing people that I love, that’s when I kind of clued into the fact that I was living a deeply unsavoury life.” Every time I ask any filmmaker the question, the answer is almost always the same, “The advertising budget is virtually non-existent.” Surely though, for a…
With the recent closure of so many video rental stores, and DVD and Blu-ray retailers, finding a copy of Jeremy Sims’ 2006 film Last Train to Freo proved a difficult feat. With a promise to throw Sims a tenner when I catch up with him in WA for the promotion of Last Cab to Darwin,…
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