Jasper Jones author Craig Silvey and the film’s director Rachel Perkins were in Perth recently to launch a series of Q&A screenings around the country. Cinema Australia’s Matthew Eeles caught up with the pair to speak all things Jasper Jones. “The kids were all different in their own right, but in terms of how they…
Drumroll please! The inaugural Big Pineapple film competition is here. Designed to help overcome gender disparity in the Australian film industry, The Big Pineapple will support female-led emerging filmmakers to produce feature length films. With a workforce of just 16% female directors, 23% female screenwriters, 34% female producers and shockingly 7% female cinematographers*, The Big Pineapple will be an active step…
What If It Works? Written and Directed by Romi Trower Produced by Tristram Miall Starring Luke Ford, Anna Samson, Brooke Satchwell, Wade Briggs, Kaarin Fairfax, Art Simone, Djon Alexander and Eliza D’Souza 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). As…
A new poster has dropped for John V. Soto’s upcoming Australian Sci Fi drama, The Gateway. Soto’s followup to his 2014 Perth-shot drama The Reckoning follows a particle physicist who is still grieving over the loss of her husband in a car crash. She uses a revolutionary machine to bring him back, with dire consequences for…
Revelation Perth International Film Festival in association with Cinema Australia proudly present a celebration of Australian film – past present and future – through a program of monthly screenings. Chasing Asylum exposes the real impact of Australia’s offshore detention policies and explores how ‘The Lucky Country’ became a country where leaders choose detention over compassion and governments deprive the…
Entries are now open for the nation’s richest film prize – the CinefestOZ Film Prize, to be awarded during the CinefestOZ Film Festival, in the Margaret River region of Western Australia. This $100,000 Film Prize is awarded to an Australian feature film for excellence in filmmaking. CinefestOZ Film Prize 2016 winner, Girl Asleep, had its cinematic release…
by Matthew Eeles Bendy Spoon Productions are calling on the public to help support their new film, Fragmentary. Writer, director, producer and Actor Jace Pickard (Lead Me Astray, Remember Redfield) is currently crowdfunding his latest project which is eyeing an April shoot. Fragmentary tells the story of Ben Sanderson, a young man who discovers he has the ability…
Tasmania’s Stranger With My Face International Film Festival will return for its fifth edition from May 4-7 2017. “Events like this are needed more than ever, with women’s rights under threat around the world,” says Festival Director Briony Kidd. “Women are angry, and they have a lot to say. Genre filmmaking is enriched by that sense…
Rough Stuff Written and Directed by Jonathan Adams Produced by Nicole Johnschwager and Kelly Tomasich Starring Gareth Rickards, Vincent Andriano, Sam Glissan, Hayley Sullivan, Katie Garfield, Jamie Kristian, Adam Horner and Ernie Dingo “An adrenaline-fueled thrill ride.” by Matthew Eeles 2017 is off and racing and Australian cinema is off to a flying start…
Revelation Perth International Film Festival is joining forces with the Department of Local Government and Communities and Screenwest to raise awareness and challenge misconceptions about ageing as part of a new short film competition, Life In Pictures. With the endorsement of the World Health Organisation and the International Federation on Ageing as a way of challenging…
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