Cinema Australia – a non-profit website dedicated to the support and promotion of Australian made films through independent news, reviews, features and interviews – is calling for Australian filmmakers to submit their short films for its brand new Sunday Shorts program. Sunday Shorts – screened exclusively at http://www.cinemaaustralia.com.au – aims to showcase a different Australian short…
Cinema Australia readers have been given an exclusive first look at Ryan Neil Butlers new short film, An Afterlife. “An Afterlife is my first film that will showcase my abilities,” Butler says. “It’s complex, arty and nothing like I’d done before. Challenges that were presented, which would have once been met with trepidation, were met with…
28 Productions today announced that principal photography starts on their feature film The Marshes on the September 6 and shoots for 4 weeks until the October 3. The film will be shot primarily in The Macquarie Marshes in western NSW. The Marshes has a talented cast including Dafna Kronental, Sam Delich, Matt Cooper, Zach Drayson and Eddy Baroo. The film…
Putuparri and the Rainmakers directed and produced by Nicole Ma, and produced by John Moore, has been named the winner of the 2015 CinéfestOZ $100,000 Film Prize. Ma and Moore were presented with the film prize tonight as part of CinéfestOZ’s Gala Night celebrations in Busselton, in the south west of Western Australia. Starring Tom Lawford and…
The City of Perth are offering emerging filmmakers and film students the opportunity to participate in a series of script development workshops throughout September. Two of the best scripts will be chosen and made into short films, which will then be screened at the City of Perth’s Carnivale Macabre Festival in Northbridge Piazza, on October 29th and 31st. The workshop’s…
Ticket to Ride, See Pictures and WBMC are delighted to announce principal photography commences today, Monday August 24th, 2015, on Ben C. Lucas’s science fiction thriller, OtherLife. With support from Deluxe Australia, ScreenWest and Lotterywest, the five-week shoot will take place in Western Australia starring an exciting young cast including Jessica De Gouw, Thomas Cocquerel, and T.J Power. Entertainment One will release in Australia and New…
Here’s your first look at the stunning new poster for Megan Riakos’ upcoming Australian mystery thriller, Crushed ahead of the film’s world premiere in Montreal. Designed by The Solid State, the poster combines the dark elements of the thriller genre with the beauty of the Mudgee wine region. Crushed will present a sneak preview screening in Sydney this Saturday…
I’m You, Dickhead, the Australian short that was a festival hit in 2014, has been released online for free. Audiences worldwide can watch the film at http://www.imyoudickhead.com. Critics called I’m You, Dickhead “hilarious”, “brash” and “mind melting”. But don’t be fooled, it’s a time travel sex comedy. Well, more accurately, a “lack-of-sex” comedy. It tells the story of a…
Stage Mums is a comedy web series which takes a tongue in cheek look at the lives of two stage mothers. Think Kath and Kim meets Dance Moms meets Absolutely Fabulous. Shaz and Trace are besties with ‘super talented, triple threat’ teenage daughters, Shenaya and Abcde. They are bogan, Aussie Stage Mums who tackle all the important issues: pretentious…
Jack (John Jarratt) is pushed past the brink of his stalking obsession when her finally decides to break into Emily’s (Kaarin Fairfax) home to take what he wants by force. However his plans for her pain and his pleasure come unhinged when he wakes up to find himself bleeding and bound to a chair in her…
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