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,…
Writer and director Fin Edquist will attend a Q&A screening of his his locally-made psychological thriller Bad Girl. Taking the award for Best Film at the Annual Western Australia Screen Awards last year, Bad Girl centres around a dark friendship between two teenage girls, Amy (Sara West) and Chloe (Samara Weaving). Amy (Sara West) returns home…
Director Fin Ediquist’s Australian psychological thriller Bad Girl is gearing up for a national theatrical release after a successful run on the festival circuit. Amy (Sara West) is given one last chance by her adoptive parents (Benjamin Winspear and Felicity Price), who think Amy’s friendship with local girl Chloe (Samara Weaving) is a step in the…
Sex, art and murder – new Australian thriller, Indigo Lake, hits the big screen in April. Indigo Lake, a neo-noir story of an artist, his muse, and her brutal husband, is set to thrill Australian audiences on its release in late April. In a gripping story of murderous adultery, the film explores the deeper theme…
Revelation Perth International Film Festival will today launch a crowdfunding campaign that aims to raise $20,000 for the Festival’s 20thanniversary. The campaign will go live at 7pm WST on the Indiegogo platform during Revelation’s monthly Australian Revelations screening and will run for 30 days. Funds raised will go towards supporting a multitude of events including key speakers and seminars,…
Academy Award® nominated director Bruce Beresford (Breaker Morant, Puberty Blues, Tender Mercies, Driving Miss Daisy) will bring to life Madeleine St John’s 1993 best-selling Australian novel The Women in Black after securing major production investment funding from Screen Australia. Produced by Allanah Zitserman and Samson Productions’ Sue Milliken, Ladies in Black will be Beresford’s first…
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