“I once filmed a couple who lost a child to cancer and they were so raw and fragile and broken. It’s that depth of truth that becomes the measuring point. It tells me if I’m getting this level of truth from my performances.” – Kim Farrant. Interview by Matthew Eeles: Strangerland is your first feature…
Interview by Matthew Eeles: Who first came to you with the idea of bringing commercial partners like Nikon and Reid Cycles on board and what was your first reaction? To be honest – coming from a photography background – I first wrote the script about photographers. It was somewhat autobiographical in a sense that there’s this guy moving from…
“Essentially, it’s great to be able to go to the cinema and watch a movie and know that you’re going to be in for a story where you don’t necessarily know what’s going to happen.” Interview by Matthew Eeles: This is Jim Lounsbury’s debut as a feature film director. How does he compare to some…
Tara Reid was flustered when Cinema Australia spoke to her during a recent press junket for her new Australian film Charlie’s Farm directed by one of the countries hottest new talents, Chris Sun. She told us, “Everything’s going great. We’re busy, busy, busy. We did about twenty different things yesterday after landing the day before. I’ve slept…
Nominated for six Logie awards and winner of five, Martin Sacks is arguably one of tellies most recognised professionals and one of the Australian public’s most loved actors. For twelve years he played Detective P.J. Hasham on Blue Heelers – a role he would become most famous for – but it was The Love Boat…
Interview by Matthew Eeles: As a busy actor, do you still get time to watch movies? Brenton: Well I was just looking at Felony thinking how much I would love to watch it. I’m lucky really because I have pretty cool agents who let me know about the latest directors and their films. Finding the…
It’s a crime The Infinite Man wasn’t nominated for the $100,000 prize at this year’s CinéfestOZ film festival. Ironically, it was the most talk about film over the five day event and, with all due respect, was a far better film in every regard than Robert Connolly’s Paper Planes which took home the loot. When I asked…
“I’m in the editing suite right now actually.” Australian director Craig Boreham is hard at work on postproduction for his new feature Teenage Kicks, which recently wrapped filming. We were lucky enough to grab 10 minutes with him at such a busy time. He told Cinema Australia, “I really enjoy this part of it. It’s great to see the film finally coming together but…
Allowing just ten minutes to interview two filmmakers with such a rich history in Australian cinema should be considered a felony in itself. It’s not an easy task to interview two personalities as big as Matthew Saville’s and Joel Edgerton’s in such short time, but their generous answers gave me plenty to work with. Interview…
“The idea of what’s happening in the film and the impression of what’s happening in the film, I’ve experienced.” Interview by Matthew Eeles: You’re an award-winning filmmaker whose had a lot of success directing short films as well as music videos for some of Australia’s favourite musicians. Did you feel like you were under a…
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