Film submissions for the prestigious CinefestOZ Film Prize, General Features and Short Films close on June 2. Now in its fourth year, the CinefestOZ Film Prize is Australia’s Greatest Film Prize! Filmmakers from across the nation have the opportunity to be selected to screen at the prestigious festival as a Finalist for the chance to…
Drumroll please! Jan Cattoni has won the 2017 Big Pineapple film funding award. Jan’s concept, titled Yuki, was chosen from a pool of 305 script entries to the inaugural competition. Jan wins a $50,000 cash prize which will enable her to write and produce the feature film in time to be screened at the April 2018 For…
Next Gen Webfest is an exciting new festival, run during Revelation Perth International Film Festival in July at The Backlot Perth, that celebrates short form content for the web by Western Australian emerging filmmakers. NEXT GEN is an event for emerging filmmakers that regularly screens short films on the big screen at The Backlot Perth…
In What If It Works?, Anna Samson give a very impressive, very award-worthy performance as scattered DID sufferer, Grace. In this interview, Anna speaks about preparing to play such a complex character, her admiration for her director and her upcoming performance in Kriv Stenders’ Wake In Fright. Interview by Matthew Eeles RELATED ARTICLES INTERVIEW: Romi Trower…
Arghhhh! With every new trailer for Ben Young’s critically acclaimed Perth-shot thriller, Hounds of Love, comes new frights that are sure to have even the toughest of viewers diving under their bed covers. This new US trailer gives us our best look yet at the dynamics between Stephen Curry and Emma Booth’s John and Evelyn White, the film’s deranged antagonists who…
The Gold Coast Film Festival has revealed the winner its inaugural Best Australian Indie Film Award. Romi Trower’s feature film debut What If It Works? was selected from a group of five independent Aussie features included in the 2017 Festival program. A jury of five Australian film critics from the Australian Film Critics Association and the Film Critics…
AACTA have announced a few policy changes for feature film eligibility making it easier for films to get AACTA recognition. A new award has also been announced for Best Online Video or Series. You can read the statements from AACTA below. Feature Film Eligibility Policy Changes Following extensive industry consultation, AACTA has announced a new…
In the latest episode of the Cinema Australia Podcast host Matthew Eeles is joined by director Romi Trower to discuss her new film, What If It Works?. Adrian (Luke Ford), an irrepressibly chirpy tech nerd, suffers from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Grace (Anna Samson), a beautiful street artist, suffers from Dissociative Identity Disorder (aka Multiple Personality Disorder).…
New Zealand actor Temuera Morrison (Once Were Warriors) and Dan Ewing (Beast No More) will star in Occupation, an action/sci-fi film about a hostile ground invasion, that is set to commence principal photography next month. Occupation follows a group of small town residents who have to band together after a devastating ground invasion. As they…
eOne have released a new clip for Cate Shortland’s Berlin Syndrome ahead of the film’s cinema release on April 20. The intense new clip stars the film’s two leads Teresa Palmer and Max Riemelt. While holidaying in Berlin, Australian photojournalist Clare (Palmer) meets charismatic local man Andi (Riemelt). There is an instant attraction between them,…
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