Chris Wallace is one of Australia’s finest songwriters and storytellers. Over his decade-spanning career he has worked with, befriended, advised, and dined with some of the industry’s finest. From Liza Minnelli to Woody Allen, from Harry Belafonte to Marlon Brando, Wallace has a plethora of stories to tell. In Story and Song we see his…
After a rapturous reception at the Opening Night of St Kilda Film Festival in May, award-winning Australian zombie kangaroo short, ‘Waterborne’, will be made available to watch online from midnight on June 15 for a limited time. The film will be free to view at www.waterbornemovie.com and VIMEO but fans are also encouraged to follow the official Facebook page at www.facebook.com/waterbornemovie for merchandise…
A new web series has been created by Iranian and Iraqi Australian refugee artists Shahin Shafaei and Osamah Sami and Australian actor and writer Rain Fuller. The comedy investigates what happens when an outspoken blonde attempts to live with two erratic Muslim refugees. Legendary news anchor George Donikian covers a breaking news story: radio host Zoe Hunter has made some blunt challenges to…
Debut filmmaker Alan Hicks was yesterday awarded the prestigious David and Joan Williams Documentary Fellowship at a private reception and screening. The Fellowship is intended to reward creative ambition, intellectual rigour and innovation in documentary cinema. Announcing the Fellowship on behalf of the selection committee Bob Connolly said, “ The Williams Fellowship is all about…
Australia’s longest-standing and publicly owned short film festival, St Kilda Film Festival last night awarded Best Short Film to Sotiris Dounoukos’ 19-minute drama A Single Body, who took home a $10,000 cash prize courtesy of the City of Port Phillip and qualifies for consideration in the OSCARS® Short Film category. Also now eligible for consideration in the OSCARS® Documentary Shorts category, The…
The St Kilda Film Festival has announced the winners of the 2015 SoundKILDA competition with Samuel Lewis taking out the top prize of Best Music Video for his directorial debut on Elliot the Bull’s Colourblind, a stop-motion animation featuring a tale of two geometric wooden characters. This year’s SoundKILDA competition showcased Australia’s top creative collaborations with eighteen clips from local and international musicians created…
The Indigenous Feature Documentary Initiative is a rare opportunity for established Indigenous filmmakers with a production-ready project to make a feature length documentary that will premiere at the Adelaide Film Festival. We’re partnering with the Adelaide Film Festival, production house KOJO and the National Film and Sound Archive for this initiative, which will see the successful applicant…
CinemaPlus and Illumination Films have launched the trailer and poster for Paul Cox’s new film, Force of Destiny, with the announcement of the film’s official Australian Premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival in August. David Denham starts as Robert, a renowned sculpture diagnosed with cancer of the liver. While reeling from this news he meets…
Australia’s longest-standing and publicly owned short film festival, St Kilda Film Festival, has today announced this year’s award nominees who are in the running for more than $50,000 worth of cash and prizes across 16 categories. As an ACADEMY AWARDS® qualifying event, the winners of this year’s Best Short Film and Best Documentary are eligible for consideration in the OSCARS® Short Film and OSCARS® Documentary…
Entertainment collective, Alison Fowler and Stephanie Pringle, have announced the official launch of their casting agency, Chicken & Chips. Bringing a fresh and energetic approach to the industry, Chicken & Chips was born after Fowler – the Chicken – and Pringle – the Chips – realised they were seeing the same faces on TV day after day. Ex…
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