In 2025, for the second time, the Adelaide Film Festival is offering South Australian filmmakers and national Adelaide Film Festival Investment Fund alumni the opportunity to attend the Marché du Film Festival de Cannes, the world’s largest film market. The Adelaide Film Festival Goes to Cannes initiative connects Australian filmmaking talent with the global market.…
The Correspondent, starring Richard Roxburgh in a career-best performance as Australian war correspondent Peter Greste, will be released in cinemas around Australia on 17th April 2025. To celebrate the release of the much-anticipated film, Maslow Entertainment is delighted to announce that Richard Roxburgh and Peter Greste will take part in a series of Q&A events…
Make It Look Real, the debut feature documentary from writer-director Kate Blackmore, has been officially selected for the SXSW 2025 Film Festival in the Documentary Spotlight section for its international premiere. The film offers a humorous and insightful behind-the-scenes exploration of Hollywood’s newest role—the intimacy coordinator. Featuring renowned intimacy coordinator Claire Warden, the documentary follows…
90-year-old Ron West, an organ player at The Majestic Theatre—the world’s longest-running silent movie theatre—bares all in Last Man Standing. This short film is directed by musicians and filmmakers Alvy Willa and Calan Mai, who have crafted a deeply moving and intimate portrait of self-acceptance, told by Ron with humour and grace. Cinema Australia spoke…
Principal photography is underway on Andrew Leavold’s new action-comedy, The Taller They Come. Shooting on location in “Kumawood”, Ghana, the film is an international co-production between Australian production companies Trash Video Archives and Maximum Daddy-O and Ghanian action-movie sensation, Ninja Productions, whose no-budget “theftsploitation” takes on popular Hollywood and Hong Kong sci-fi and action have…
The WA Made Film Festival is pleased to announce the full list of nominees for its inaugural Student Awards, the festival’s newest initiative designed to recognise and celebrate emerging talent in the Western Australian film industry. The 2025 WA Made Film Festival Student Awards will provide a unique opportunity for student filmmakers to gain recognition,…
Thanks to Transmission Films, we have 10 double passes to give away to Spit, a film starring David Wenham, opening nationally in cinemas on 6th March. After 20 years on the run overseas, small-time ex-criminal Johnny Spitieri (Spit) slips back into Australia on a false passport only to find himself locked up in an Immigration…
Queer Screen has awarded the full $10,000 from this year’s Completion Fund round to the animated feature film Lesbian Space Princess. The announcement was made at the Program Launch for Queer Screen’s 32nd Mardi Gras Film Festival, held at the State Library of NSW. The low-budget film – about an introverted space princess who leaves…
Western Australian survival thriller, We Bury the Dead has been selected to make its world premiere at the iconic South by Southwest Festival (SXSW) in Austin, Texas in March 2025. Starring Daisy Ridley, (Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens), Brenton Thwaites (Titans) and Mark Coles Smith (Mystery Road: Origin), We Bury the Dead…
A trailer has dropped for Craig Alexander and Shelly Higgs’ black comedy, Snatchers. In a dystopian Australia, perpetually broke best friends, Mac and Fettes, work as orderlies in a hospital, barely scraping by. To escape their dire circumstances, they decide to target the lucrative black market where the wealthy pay good money for fresh organs…
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