Genna Chanelle Hayes’ debut feature film Akoni has completed production in Sydney this week, and the first teaser has been released. Akoni boasts an all-star Australian and English cast including Mark Coles Smith, Kit Esuruoso, John Brumpton, Genna Chanelle Hayes, Simon Elrahi, Jack Ellis, Marlikka Perdrisat, Rashidi Edward, Christopher Stollery and Pippa Grandison. Akoni is written, directed…
Matt Ferro has announced three new feature film projects set to be shot throughout various locations in Australia. Based on international properties from Byron Bay, Paris and Istanbul, Ferro (The Matrix, Titanic) says, “each new production will have, that Hollywood flair, production value and vibe that connects with a global audience.” The three new films…
The team behind the award-winning Rites of Passage, a feature length drama made collaboratively with young people, have launched a crowd funding campaign for their new collaboration, Protection. Boasting a cast and crew of over 100 young people aged between 5 – 16 years, Protection was filmed over three years. The team are raising money to tour…
Your partner comes home and they tell you they’ve cheated on you. It’s a situation we all fear and how we respond can either define us or break us. New Australian drama Zelos explores the issue, and the unexpected life changes people are faced with in this situation, through the eyes of Bernard and Shannon, played…
by Matthew Eeles Kriv Stenders’ new drama Australia Day will have a limited theatrical release before screening on Foxtel and Dendy Direct a week later. Dendy and Foxtel hope other films will follow this new route to market distribution model. Back in the day we used to call this ‘straight to video’ and it usually meant…
The makers of Zelos have given us an exclusive clip of their new dramedy to share with our readers. We’ve also got a list of cinemas screening the film from September 7 including the Great Barrier Reef Film Festival. Find out where you can catch it below. Great Barrier Reef Film Festival Thurs 7th Sept…
Actors Simon Laherty and Sonia Teuben and director Bruce Gladwin from internationally acclaimed Back to Back Theatre, a professional theatre company with an ensemble of actors with disabilities at its core, will attend the world premiere of the company’s debut short feature Oddlands at Adelaide Film Festival on Tuesday 10 October 2017. Written and directed…
by Matthew Eeles 1% has been selected to screen at the Toronto International Film Festival as part of the Discover program which showcases the work of emerging filmmakers. It will join feature films Breath, The Butterfly Tree, Sweet Country and documentary Cocaine Prison on the prestigious lineup. 1% was filmed in Western Australia with the support of ScreenWest’s…
Hanging out for the new Han Solo film? He’s already here, covered in good-old Aussie dirt and dust according to Rough Stuff director Jonathan Adams. “Buzz is to Han Solo what Solo was to the Lone Ranger and The Man with No Name,” Adams told Cinema Australia following the recent home release of Rough Stuff…
29 Years & Eight Days, one of four new films from Meal Tickets director Matt de Koning, has launched a funding campaign through the Documentary Australia Foundation (DAF). 29 Years & Eight Days is said to be an intimate portrayal of Perth artist Matt Doust, an internationally renowned portrait painter from Perth who died suddenly…
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