Multi-award winning indie Pretty Good Friends will have an exclusive Sydney cinema screening at Paddington’s Chauvel Cinema on Tuesday 7 February at 6:30pm. Pretty Good Friends has been dubbed Australia’s first mumblecore film. Mumblecore is the unique film subgenre that shot Lena Dunham (HBO’s Girls) to fame, and was first coined in 2005 at America’s South…
Prepare to meet your new favourite screwed-up superhero, The Dark Blackness. The new comedy CAPES has been released on YouTube today, following its world premiere at the Austin Film Festival in October. The short film hails from a country not known for caped crusaders – Australia – and takes a typically Aussie, irreverent look at…
“Seeing my name on the Oscars website next to many of my composing heroes such as Alan Silvestri, Mark Isham, John Williams and Hans Zimmer, was an amazing feeling,” Swiss-born, Australian based composer Ronnie Minder told Cinema Australia. His first feature film score for Matthew Holmes’ The Legend of Ben Hall is one of 145 scores to…
2016 saw another great year for Australian films in terms of quality. Cinema Australia was lucky enough to catch a lot of great films from this year and next via cinema, home release, preview screeners and film festivals. Here are our Top 5 for 2016 including the winner of the Cinema Australia 2016 Best Film…
Looking like a born again Living like a heretic Listening to Arthur Lee records Making all your friends feel so guilty About their cynicism And the rest of their generation Not even the government are gonna stop you now But are you ready to be heartbroken? Lloyd Cole “Our TV industry grew on the quota…
“After a series of disappointing New Year’s we decided we’d rather do what we love instead on the night; make a film.” The final day of the year is when people are out contemplating their New Year’s resolutions, spending time with loved ones for a quiet night in or meeting friends in social settings to…
Blue World Order Directed by Ché Baker and Dallas Bland Written by Ché Baker, Dallas Bland and Sarah Mason Produced by Ché Baker, Tim Maddocks, Sarah Mason and Matthew Reilly Starring Billy Zane, Bruce Spence, Jack Thompson, Jake Ryan and Stephen Hunter After a nuclear war decimated the northern hemisphere, the surviving population in the south become…
Digilante will be the season finale in a series of five half hour documentaries produced as part of the fourth instalment of Opening Shot, an ABC and Screen Australia initiative designed to see young filmmaking teams bring a fresh perspective to some of the big issues facing younger Australians. Joining Mike Nayna are producers Mark Conway…
Entries for the coveted St Kilda Film Festival competitions are now open. Both emerging filmmakers and industry professionals are being called on to submit their creative works in the following categories; Australia’s Top 100 Short Film Competition, The SoundKILDA Music Video Competition, and Under the Radar for filmmakers under the age of 21. Commencing Thursday…
It’s AACTA time again! An important date on the Australian film and television calendar where a handful of our finest filmmaking talent are awarded for their hard work and dedication to their craft. Below are our predictions for this year’s awards. There aren’t too many differences between our ‘will win’ and ‘should win’ predictions this year which is…
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