Broke director Heath Davis has announced the cast of his new film Book Week which will start filming across the Blue Mountains in January. After spending the past year engaging locals in fundraising and creative workshops, and developing the script with Screen Australia, Davis and his team are ready to call action. “It’s another micro…
Next Gen Short Film Festival is back at The Backlot Perth in February 2018 as part of Fringe World. This award-winning festival celebrates short films made by emerging WA filmmakers. Next Gen is an event for emerging filmmakers that regularly screens short films on the big screen at The Backlot Perth and provides an opportunity…
IT’S BACK! Which film will join Love is Now, Holding the Man and The Legend of Ben Hall as the winner of the Cinema Australia 2017 Audience Award? Voting for the Cinema Australia 2017 Audience Award is now open! You can find your voting slip below. This is your chance to vote for your favourite…
Producers of new Australian film The BBQ have announced the world premiere screening and BBQ after-party in Albury-Wodonga on Sunday, January 14, 2018. Albury’s heritage-listed and state-of-the-art Regent Cinemas will roll out the Red Carpet for stars Shane Jacobson, Magda Szubanski, Julia Zemiro, Manu Feildel and local discovery Freddy Simpson, followed by a BBQ street festival…
A 2K digital restoration of Digby Duncan’s 1980’s documentary Witches and Faggots, Dykes and Poofters will screen at next year’s Mardi Gras Film Festival. Recently restored by the Australian National Film and Sound Archive, Witches and Faggots, Dykes and Poofters is the story of the very first Mardi Gras from those who were there on the night of the…
RELATED ARTICLES: Interview with Bentley Dean AAACTA today announced acclaimed filmmaking collaborators Martin Butler and Bentley Dean as this year’s recipients of the Byron Kennedy Award. The Byron Kennedy Award will be presented to the two-man film crew at the 7th AACTA Awards presented by Foxtel on Wednesday 6 December at The Star Event Centre…
Indigo Lake will have it’s Melbourne premiere next month following sold out sessions in Sydney, Canberra and Cannes. Martin Simpson’s noir thriller stars Miranda O’Hare, Marin Mimica and Andrew Cutcliffe. Celebrated artist Jack Zeffa is hired by nightclub owner Bill Kazak to paint a portrait of his beautiful but troubled wife Ruby. As Jack paints her, he…
Fresh from its win at the Busan International Film Festival comes bold new Australian film, Pulse, which will rock your world when it comes to changing the way disability is portrayed on screen. Pulse is the ambitious debut of the talented Daniel Monks, who writes and stars in this body swap drama blending sci-fi with…
The Melbourne Women in Film Festival (MWFF) has announce its 2018 festival program. Taking place from 22 to 25 February at venues across Melbourne’s CBD including ACMI Federation Square, Hoyts Melbourne Central and RMIT University, MWFF celebrates and supports the work of women screen practitioners across all disciplines in the industry, including directors, writers, producers,…
Never Forget will have its NSW premiere this month which will include a Q&A with director Jon Bling. Starring Ann Truong, Tam Dinh, Van Nguyen and Ivan Bradara, Never Forget follows a young nurse who must travel back to her homeland to attend her father’s funeral. Her family sends a suitor to escort her back…
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