Screenwest announces Seph McKenna as new Chief Executive Officer Screenwest Chair Janelle Marr has announced the appointment of Seph McKenna as the new Chief Executive Officer of Screenwest. “I am delighted to announce that Seph McKenna has accepted our offer of appointment for a five-year term,” Mrs Marr said. Mr McKenna, the current Head of…
George MacKay (Captain Fantastic), Russell Crowe (The Water Diviner), Nicholas Hoult (Mad Max: Fury Road) and Essie Davis (The Babadook) will star in The True History of the Kelly Gang, a film by the creative team behind the disturbing Snowtown. Due to film in Victoria, Australia next year from March, director Justin Kurzel (Snowtown) and writer Shaun…
Big screen Australian comedies are few and far between nowadays, but going by the new trailer for Stephan Elliot’s Swinging Safari it’s certainly set to bring the good. Swinging Safari boasts an incredible cast which includes Guy Pearce, Kylie Minogue, Rhada Mitchell, Julian McMahon, Asher Keddie, Jeremy Sims, Atticus Robb, Darcey Wilson and bloody Jack Thompson. Take…
Landfall Written and Directed by Travis Bain Produced by Travis Bain, Shawn Brack Starring Rob Stanfield, Kristen Condon, Vernon Wells, Tony Bonner, Daryl Heath, Bailey Stevenson, Andy Bramble, Shawn Brack and Anthony Ring A young couple in tropical Australia is trapped in their beach house by three fugitives carrying a mysterious icebox containing unknown contents, and they must…
Australian Revelations will screen the Perth premiere of Namatjira Project this month. Albert Namatjira was the first Indigenous person – an Aranda man – to be made a citizen by the Australian Government. This was a time when Aboriginal people were still considered flora and fauna – some 170 years after white people arrived in…
The 2017 Port Shorts Film Festival has been hailed a huge success by organisers and audiences with more than 700 people enthralled by some of the most impressive short films on the planet over two massive nights of entertainment under the stars. Eighteen-year-old Perth wonderkid Radheya Jedatheva brought the crowd to their feet with his…
The first poster has dropped for Luke Sparke’s Australian sci-fi epic, Occupation. Occupation stars an incredible ensemble of local and international names including Dan Ewing (Red Billabong, Home and Away), Temuera Morrison (Star Wars, Once Were Warriors), Stephany Jacobsen (Revenge, Battlestar Galactica), Rhiannon Fish (The 100, Home and Away), Charles Mesure (Desperate Housewives, Once Upon a…
Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o and Beauty and the Beast’s Josh Gad are set to star opposite Australian actor Alexander England in the zombie comedy Little Monsters, from Australian writer/director Abe Forsythe. Keith & Jess Calder’s Snoot Entertainment and Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories are producing the film, with production having begun this month in Sydney.…
AACTA have announced the full list of nominees for this year’s awards. You can find the complete list of feature films nominated below. Click here for other categories including television, documentary and short films. Let us know what you think in the comments section below. BEST FILM ALI’S WEDDING Sheila Jayadev, Helen Panckhurst BERLIN SYNDROME…
Goalpost Pictures Australia have announced that Top End Wedding, the new feature film co-written by and starring Miranda Tapsell, co-written by Joshua Tyler and directed by Wayne Blair, will go into production early in the new year after securing major investment funding from Screen Australia. Tapsell starred in the Goalpost Pictures box office hit The…
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