Cinema Australia readers and followers have been treated to an exclusive clip from James Branson’s survival nightmare, Bunny, ahead of the film’s screening at the Vision Splendid Outback Film Festival. Set in the aftermath of a climate-collapsed Australia, BUNNY follows a young woman as she roams the ruins of a world she never got to…
VicScreen, National Indigenous Television (NITV) and Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF), today announced the four distinctive projects that have been selected for Sovereign Shorts. The four Victorian-made short documentaries exploring Treaty are set to premiere at MIFF 2026 on Wednesday 19 August. The joint initiative by VicScreen, NITV and MIFF was announced following the historic…
Legendary Australian film director Peter Weir has been announced as the inaugural recipient of the Australian Film Television and Radio School’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Peter will receive the Award – presented by Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) Council Chair, Rachel Perkins – at the Sydney Film Festival on Wednesday June 10. On that…
Production has wrapped in Adelaide on new horror The Debt, the latest feature film to come out of South Australia’s successful Film Lab: New Voices initiative from the South Australian Film Corporation (SAFC), Screen Australia and the Adelaide Film Festival (AFF). The debut feature from writer Piri Eddy and Yankunytjatjara writer Pearl Berry, Yankunytjatjara producer Lilla Berry, and director Johanis Lyons-Reid, The Debt is breaking ground as the first feature film…
Inspired by one of Australia’s most cheeky bank robberies, The Bank Manager is now available to watch on YouTube. There’s been a story doing the rounds in outback Queensland since 1932, that a group of local larrikins managed to rob two Cloncurry banks and get away with £14,000 – a small fortune at the time. …
Production has wrapped on the action-horror feature Headless, a contemporary reimagining of the Headless Horseman mythology. Directed by acclaimed filmmaking duo The Spierig Brothers (Daybreakers) and produced by Queenslanders Chris Brown (Beast of War) and Diana Le Dean (Sting), Headless brings together local creatives, crew and post-production companies from across the state’s screen industry. Filmed…
Nominated for two awards at the upcoming Sydney Film Festival, a rare co-production between Australia and New Zealand directed by Matasila Freshwater and Lachlan McLeod, Sukundimi Walks Before Me is an urgent plea by Indigenous people about their existential fight through lyrical expressions of existence, resistance and life along the mother river. The Sepik River…
Radheya Jang’s Trading Cards has been selected for SXSW London, and not just as part of the broader programme. The film is one of only ten shorts worldwide selected for the SXSW London Screen Competition for Short Films, placing it in contention for one of the festival’s top honours. From its world premiere at Flickerfest in…
For the third time, the Adelaide Film Festival (AFF) will take part in the Goes to Cannes initiative at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, presenting a curated selection of Australian films to the international industry. Organised by the Marché du Film, the showcase provides a platform for festivals to introduce new work and support emerging…
Bus Stop Films is thrilled to announce that celebrated Australian actor Daniel MacPherson has come on board as a proud Ambassador, joining a community dedicated to creating meaningful opportunities for people with disability in the screen industry. Daniel is no stranger to Bus Stop Films. He stars in Hopeful Romantic, a short film produced through…
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