Thanks to Umbrella Entertainment, we’re giving readers the chance to win a copy of Not Quite Hollywood and Dark Age on Blu-ray. Not Quite Hollywood is the fast and furious story of OZploitation – an eye-popping celebration of Australian cult films of the ’70s and early ’80s (including Stone, Mad Max and Turkey Shoot). Exploding with adrenaline-pumping…
As a non-profit website dedicated to the support and promotion of Australian made films, Cinema Australia rarely gets the opportunity to throw cash at crowdfunding projects. Trust us, if we had the money we’d be executive producers on almost every new Australian film calling for supporters through the myriad of crowdfunding platforms available on the interwebs. That’s…
One of the most accomplished ensembles of film industry heavyweights ever assembled in regional Australia is set to share their insights with emerging filmmakers and shine the spotlight on Far North Queensland as part of the Port Shorts Film Festival’s Masterclass Series later this month. Port Shorts Film Festival Ambassadors – champion Aussie actor Stephen…
A major national tour is underway this month for Ben Elton’s big-hearted ensemble comedy Three Summers, ahead of a hometown screening on Thursday October 26 at the Grand Cygnet Cinemas in Como. This will kick off a week of Q&A screenings and appearances at Perth cinemas, including a special charity screening in Mandurah for the…
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)…
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