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…
Created by the filmmaking team of writer and director, Craig Boreham and producer, Annmaree J Bell, Teenage Kicks. The film is a journey through the minefield of adolescence as Miklos Varga, played by young up and comer Miles Szanto, searches for a way to navigate through his guilt over his brother’s death and his explosive sexuality…
On April 21, indie Australian comic drama Pawno opens in cinemas nationally. The debut film by director Paul Ireland is set to charm audiences Australia-wide following its world premiere at MIFF 2015, where it was the Festival’s fastest-selling local ticket, and its award-winning European and Asian premieres. A valentine to the vibrant, multicultural suburb of Footscray,…
Screenings, including the film’s Australian premiere, have been announced for Observance with more dates in other cities to follow. Observance, a psychological thriller, tells of a private investigator embarking on an unusual assignment to observe a woman from an abandoned apartment, and while witnessing bizarre happenings around her, is unaware the derelict building that he’s surveying her…
Revelation Perth International Film Festival, in association with Cinema Australia, presents Australian Revelations as a celebration of Australian film via monthly screenings. New Australian film Broke will have its Western Australian premiere at Australian Revelations on 26 April. Gambling, footy and the sometimes lonely environments of the suburbs form the backdrop of this terrific new Australian dramatic feature. Selected for screening at multiple festivals around…
The Burning Kiss is an exciting new West Australian summer noir that stylistically draws inspiration from Pop Art, the French New Wave and Southern Gothic. It was shot in 2012, however due to the scope and ambition of the project at the independent level, the production has suffered from various set-backs that have delayed its completion.…
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