After Bark – Flying Bark’s live action label – has announced that it will collaborate with Mad Ones Films and Minor Realm on It’s All Going Very Well… the first project to be officially released under the After Bark banner since the division’s launch in 2022. Written, directed and led by acclaimed South Australian actress…
Interview: James Robert Woods Sydney-based production house Badlands is venturing into the distribution space with the rollout of its critically acclaimed feature The Birthday Trip. Previously known as Moonrise Over Knights Hill, the unflinchingly funny drama following three millennial couples whose relationships are thrown into disarray when they descend on a Southern Highlands farmstay for…
The curtains have closed on the 10th Capricorn Film Festival, marking a milestone year for Central Queensland’s premiere screen arts event, with packed screenings, visiting filmmakers, community celebrations and an inspiring lineup of award-winning Australian and international cinema. Held across four days in Yeppoon, Capricorn Film Festival 2026 welcomed audiences to feature films, documentaries, short…
Wolfram, the new film from one of Australia’s foremost directors Warwick Thornton, will screen next month In Competition at the 2026 Berlin Film Festival. The selection was announced overnight. Starring the brilliant Deborah Mailman alongside Erroll Shand, Joe Bird, Thomas M Wright, Matt Nable and Pedrea Jackson, and produced by Bunya Productions’ Greer Simpkin and…
Two new Australian films, Lenore and Skeleton Girls. A Kidnapped Society, have been selected to screen at Fantasporto Film Festival in Porto, Portugal – one of the world’s leading and longest-running genre film festivals. Lenore, the debut feature film by director David Ward, is a haunting psychological drama that explores grief, obsession, and the dangerous…
After 13 years of championing the Australian screen industry, Cinema Australia is proud to launch the Cinema Australia Film Festival Submissions Fund – a brand new initiative designed to help emerging and established filmmakers get their work seen on the big screen. This exciting new fund will allow filmmakers to apply for small grants to…
Jordan Giusti’s powerful documentary Floodland, winner of the prestigious Sustainable Future Award at the 2025 Sydney Film Festival, is set to arrive in cinemas nationwide on 26 February. Produced by Mofa Stories, the film brings to the screen an intimate portrait of Australia’s most expensive climate disaster and the community caught in its wake, as…
by Matthew Eeles 2025 saw only a few new films from Australian filmmaking heavyweights. Bruce Beresford’s The Travellers, Justin Kurzel’s Ellis Park and Robert Connolly’s Magic Beach are the only ones that come to mind. (Even though it enjoyed a festival screening, Warwick Thornton’s Wolfram isn’t officially due for release until next year, so I’m…
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 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…
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