Our friends at the Gold Coast Film Festival are calling for entries for 2018. Here’s the pitch: You’ve put blood, sweat, tears and money into your short or feature film, and now it’s time to build your film’s profile and find audiences. The Gold Coast Film Festival brings diverse Australian and International films, filmmakers and…
Last Tree Standing Written and Directed by Agnes Baginska Produced by Zachary Peel-McGregor and Agnes Baginska Starring Steve Kennevan, Jada Foster, Jeffrey Hedquist, Susan Peters, Lou Bolster and Sage Biros Jarmosco In a bleak world devoid of trees, Last Tree Standing tells the tale of a young dystopian girl named Lexie, who befriends a peculiar being – half-man, half-tree. Last Tree Standing is the most…
Label Distribution’s Tait Brady and Madman Entertainment’s Paul Wiegard today announced that the two companies will jointly release the new Australian comedy The BBQ, starring Shane Jacobson and Magda Szubanski. The national release date is January 18, 2018. Shane, whose box office hits include Oddball and Kenny, and Magda, one Australia’s favourite comic actresses (Babe,…
Academy Award® nominated director Bruce Beresford (Breaker Morant, Driving Miss Daisy, Mao’s Last Dancer) has assembled an incredible Australian and international cast for Ladies in Black, the long-awaited big screen adaptation of Madeleine St John’s 1993 best-selling novel, The Women in Black. The film will star Julia Ormond (Mad Men) as Magda Szombatheli, the charming…
RAW, an incredible national opportunity for millennial Indigenous filmmakers wanting to break into the industry, today announced that 21-year-old student Enoch Mailangi, descendent of Bwgcolman and raised in the heart of the city of Sydney in Waterloo, has been chosen to have his web series concept developed and pitched to the ABC. The decision was made…
The team behind Australian cult hit Wyrmwood are gearing up to start shooting their new film, Nekromancer. Monica Bellucci, Ben O’Toole and Tess Haubrich were recently cast as leads in the Roache-Turner brothers’ sci-fi horror. Nekromancer is a genre-mashing, sci-fi-horror which will take audiences on a cinematic roller-coaster traversing the full spectrum of human (and inhuman)…
Award winning Australian documentary The Last Goldfish will get a limited national release from October 31. The Last Goldfish, written and directed by Su Goldfish, and produced by Carolyn Johnson documents a daughter’s search for her lost family. Rich with archival images, this suspenseful and surprising story – stretching from Australia to Trinidad, North America…
Filming has commenced on Lexus Australia Short Film Fellowship winning film My Boy Oleg directed by Goran Stoleveski produced by Jessica Carrera of Dollhouse Pictures. The film shoots over four days in and around Footscray. My Boy Oleg follows Ukrainian actress Irina who arrives in Melbourne with her son Oleg for a theatre festival performance.…
Lucy Durack’s debut web series, Lift, has secured $70,000 production funding through Screenwest’s Elevate program. The web series, set entirely in an elevator, will be an intimate look at the literal and metaphorical ups and downs of artist Olivia (Lucy Durack) and uptight Simon (Charlie Garber) as they travel the floors of their corporate office…
“Dare I say, it is one of the hardest industries to break through, but there is so much to gain if you never give up.” Interview by Joanne Kmaid What gives you a boost in life? I have a slight problem with my daily coffee intake! Although the boosts may not feel like the incredible…
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