Acclaimed observational documentary Hotel Coolgardie from Western Australian director, Pete Gleeson and Western Australian producers Melissa Hayward and Kate Neylon is now available on demand on digital platforms including iTunes, Vimeo, Amazon and YouTube Movies. Following a World Premiere at Hot Docs Canadian International Film Festival, Australian Premiere at Sydney Film Festival, a string of…
Ewen Leslie was just nine years old when he started acting professionally. It was on a popular children’s television series called Ship to Shore, filmed in and around Rockingham – a small coastal town about forty minutes south of Perth. After graduating from WAAPA in 2000, Leslie’s first feature film role was in Matthew Newton’s…
Can’t make it to MIFF or CinefestOZ? Transmission Films have announced a November 2 release date for Ben Elton’s Three Summers, as well as a fresh new poster by Carnival Studio with art direction by Demi Hopkins and design and illustration by Cassandra Chapman. On the eve of its MIFF Centrepiece Gala World Premiere, Transmission…
“The worst violence is left off screen and left to the viewer’s imagination. I knew that audiences would be able to fill in those blanks in a worse way than I would ever want to show.” Damien Power’s Killing Ground is brutal, violent and unforgiving. Here, Power talks us through the process of making one of…
CinefestOZ will award both Scott Hicks and Jacqueline McKenzie the title of the 2017 Screen Legend. Both will be recognised individually for their outstanding achievements and invaluable contribution to the Australian film industry. Scott Hicks is an internationally acclaimed writer and director, having been nominated for and won many prestigious awards for his work. His film Shine was an international box office…
Director John Balazs discusses his Australian neo-noir. Australian action film Dancer has enjoyed a very successful festival run overseas having won a swag of international awards. Dancer is a fast-paced, 55 minute, drama/martial arts film set in the nocturnal underbelly of contemporary Melbourne. It tells the story of Richard, a disconnected hitman who develops an…
Genna Chanelle Hayes’ debut feature film Akoni will re-commence production in Sydney this week, and the film has added award-winning actor Mark Coles Smith and emerging young talent Marlikka Perdrisat to its cast. Coles Smith recently won a Helpmann Award for his work on the Belvoir play A Drover’s Wife. Marlikka Perdrisat is an indigenous…
Enzo Tedeschi’s Event Zero will hit a number of Australian cinemas from August 31. The Australian action thriller stars Ash Ricardo and Zoe Carides will screen across New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria and Western Australia. When a terrorist attack hits the Sydney subway releasing a highly contagious virus into the population, Detective Leyla…
The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) today announced the nominees for Best Feature Length Documentary as well as the feature films in competition for this year’s AACTA Awards. Reinforcing a strong year for Australian documentary and following changes to the nominations process to introduce a Documentary Branch, AACTA has announced five nominees…
by Matthew Eeles Post-production has wrapped on Tracy and Cinema Australia has been given a handful of images from the film to share with readers. Directed by Derek Erskine, the new Australian psychological thriller explores a drug and alcohol fuelled psychotic rampage by a married couple, Tracy (Cassanda Leopold) and Daz (Derek Erskine) living in…
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