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…
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…
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