AACTA is now calling for recommendations for one of the nation’s most coveted and prestigious screen excellence Awards – the Byron Kennedy Award. This Award, which honours Dr George Miller’s original filmmaking partner and Mad Max co-creator Byron Kennedy, celebrates outstanding creative enterprise within the film and television industries and is given to an individual…
Alvin spends his days working as a Japanese translator, carefully creating the illusion of everyday normalcy for his friends, colleagues and those around him. But then there are the panda toys, the good-looking girl downstairs that Alvin spies on but can’t summon the courage to approach, the crazed and angry neighbour across the corridor, and…
“I think the whole apparatus of theatrical exhibition is being dismantled. It’s not a sustainable business model. It’s twenty dollars to buy a ticket for god’s sake.” Does it feel good to finally be showing Kill Me Three Times to Australian audiences? It feels like it’s been a long time coming. It’s great. It’s a funny…
While awaiting to hear from Warner Bros Studios as to whether or not their proposed Justice League Mortal documentary will be allowed to move ahead; director Ryan Unicomb & producers Steven Caldwell & Aaron Cater have decided to move onto further developing feature film Stream; written by New York based Writer J.E. Clarke. The production has been courting actor Rutger Hauer…
SparkeFilms have released the first online teaser trailer for their feature film Red Billabong. Starring Home & Away’s Dan Ewing and Dance Academy favourite Tim Pocock, Red Billabong is an Action/Adventure film that is currently in Post Production at the Qld based The Post Lounge studios. Sophie Don, Jessica Green, Ben Chisholm, John Reynolds, Emily Joy, James Straiton…
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…
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