Capricorn Film Festival celebrates a decade of storytelling with 2026 program announcement

Central Queensland’s premier screen arts event, the Capricorn Film Festival, will return to Yeppoon from 15–18 January 2026, marking a major milestone as the festival celebrates 10 years of championing film, creativity and community on the Capricorn Coast. Presented by Keppel Coast Arts, and supported by Livingstone Shire Council, Screen Queensland, Tourism Events Queensland, Bishopp and a broad network of regional…

Production begins on Ursula Dabrowksy’s new horror Ruby, Ruby

Production has begun in South Australia on the supernatural horror feature film Ruby, Ruby – from director Ursula Dabrowksy and producer Antony I. Ginnane. Supported by the South Australian Film Corporation (SAFC) and in association with Headgear Films and Arterial Films, Ruby, Ruby marks the fourth horror project for Dabrowsky, a pseudonym of Barossa Valley…

Roaring Entertainment repositions as ANZ distributor with new theatrical model

Roaring Entertainment has announced a strategic relaunch into distribution across Australia and New Zealand, introducing a theatrical model built around early producer engagement, data-led audience strategy and a risk-sharing finance structure designed to strengthen release outcomes for Australian features. Previously operating as a Queensland-based production company, Roaring’s leadership now comprises Daniel Mulvihill (Theatrical and Sales),…

The Night Moses Died selected as the first Adelaide Film Festival Investment Fund and Pride Foundation Australia Short Film

Adelaide Film Festival Investment Fund (AFFIF) and Pride Foundation Australia (PFA) today announced that recipient of the inaugural AFF/APF Short Film Initiative grant is The Night Moses Died, written by Lilah Benetti and Maxine Ellah and to be directed by Lilah Benetti and produced by Mimo Mukii. Lilah Benetti (they/them) is a queer, Black, trans non-binary…

YAS Studio: Melbourne’s first multi-disciplinary youth screen studio launches in Kensington

Actor Daniel Fischer opens YAS Studio in February 2026, giving young people a creative home to explore acting, animation, filmmaking and photography. Melbourne is about to gain its first dedicated multi-disciplinary youth screen studio, with the launch of YAS Studio in Kensington in February 2026. Construction on the new creative space is currently underway, with…

▶️ Stream Here! Terror by Night

An astral traveller and a detective risk everything to save a child from the clutches of a rogue demon in Dean Butler’s Terror by Night, which is now available to stream below via Alter. The film concludes the Evenfall trilogy, which began with Evenfall and continued with A Shadow in the Darkness. Shadow proved a…

Yurlu | Country wins Walkley Documentary Award

Yurlu | Country was announced as the winner of the 2025 Walkey Documentary Award at the Walkley Awards ceremony in Sydney last night. Yurlu | Country is a feature documentary from six-time Walkley Award winning Australian director Yaara Bou Melhem, co-created with Banjima Elder Maitland Parker, which immerses us in Maitland’s final year as he strives to…

Cinematographer Benjamin Bryan takes home the Golden Frog at Camerimage 2025

Australian cinematographer Benjamin Bryan has been awarded the prestigious Golden Frog, the top honour at EnergaCamerimage Festival in Poland, for his work on Kasimir Burgess’ breathtaking feature documentary, Iron Winter. Selected from a competitive field of six feature documentaries at the closing ceremony on November 23rd, Jury president Nancy Schreiber ASC awarded the prize, saying…

Darcy Conlan’s cosmic horror The Harvest wins 2025 Wake in Fright Development Initiative

AACTA, Sanctuary Pictures, Umbrella Entertainment and the Wake in Fright Trust today announced The Harvest, written and directed by emerging filmmaker Darcy Conlan, as the 2025 recipient of the Wake in Fright Development Initiative. Conlan will receive $30,000 in funding and dedicated development support to take the project toward production. The Wake in Fright Development…

Deadhouse Films announces production on Nick Annas’ thriller Crashout

Deadhouse Films today announced production will commence in early 2026 on its dark Gen-Z thriller, Crashout. Written and directed by Nick Annas, Crashout will be produced by Helen Tuck and Enzo Tedeschi, with Umbrella Entertainment handling theatrical distribution across Australia and New Zealand. Blending psychological horror with sharp, distinctively Australian humour, Crashout explores the modern…

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