The SmartFone Flick Fest is back! After a successful inaugural year in 2015, Australia’s only dedicated smartphone film festival is again calling for your entries. SmartFone Flick Festl provides a platform for filmmakers – from beginners to professionals – to bring their ideas to life without the need for expensive equipment or a big budget. Last…
by Matthew Eeles Few things are rarer in Australian cinema than a film directed by a woman, with men having dominated the industry for more than four decades. Gender inequality in the Australian film industry has been well reported recently and the staggeringly low number of films made by women in this country – just 14%…
Missing David and Margaret on the small screen? There’s a little bit of Australia’s favourite bickering film critics in the new satirical web-series, F****d-Up Film Show. Created by Perth-based production team Lot 3 Media, F****d-Up Film Show introduces the world to Colin (David T. Cowell), a high-brow film snob and Matilda (Annabel Maclean), a low-brow film buff as they…
Acclaimed Australian artists Matthew Sleeth, Emma Magenta and Bruce Gladwin are set to collaborate with screen creatives Maggie Miles, Robert Connolly, Andrew Bovell, Julie Eckersley and Ester Harding on three exciting, bold new projects announced to receive funding in the third and final round of the successful HIVE FUND initiative. An Adelaide Film Festival initiative…
The St Kilda Film Festival has revealed its exciting ten-day calendar for the 2016 event; running from Thursday 19 to Saturday 28 May 2016. Proudly produced by the City of Port Phillip, the Festival will kick off with Opening Night on Thursday 19 May, where the Palais Theatre will welcome 3,000 industry guests and film-lovers on the red carpet…
Mind Blowing World has announced that the new Australian feature Pawno, opened nationally on Thursday 21 April to fabulous reviews and solid box office on its opening weekend. Pawno opened on 19 screens across Australia, achieving a healthy $3,120 screen average over the Anzac Day long weekend, with especially strong results recorded at The Sun in Yarraville,…
Australian rock legend and Rose Tattoo frontman, Angry Anderson has been cast in director Colin ‘Spida’ Dixon’s upcoming Australian feature film, Patched. Currently in pre-production the film follows a small town motorcycle club accused by local police of robbing the community bank. Tensions build quickly between the police and the motorcyclists and ends in a…
Answer the call for your chance to be screened to CinefestOZ audiences through our popular Side Bar program. After a stellar program at the festival last year, CinefestOZ is excited to announce that the Short Film Entries are now open for 2016. CinefestOZ presents a wide variety of short films at side bar venues across the…
The nominees for the 17th annual South Australian Screen Awards (SASAs) have been announced. Among the nominees for Best Feature film is the coming-of-age feature film Girl Asleep, which takes a look at the world through the weird and wonderful mind of a teenage girl with great performances by Australians Bethany Whitmore, Eamon Farren, Harrison Feldman, Danielle Catanzariti…
Australia’s Funniest Shorts is calling for comedians, funny people and filmmakers to submit comedy short films and sketches for this year’s festival. The festival showcases short comedy films (between 3 and 8 minutes) and sketches (up to 3 minutes) and offers prize money for the best judged in each category. Australia’s Funniest Shorts is pleased to…
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