After a massive six days, including a sold-out Opening Night film The Correspondent with guests including Richard Roxburgh and Peter Greste, a spectacular Mexican fiesta following the Opening Weekend Gala screening of Cannes winner Emilia Peìrez, Australian icon Marta Dusseldorp walking the red carpet for the World Premiere of With or Without You and Dacre Montgomery…
Interview: Will Howarth and Tom McKeith In Vitro, starring Talia Zucker, Ashley Zukerman, and Will Howarth, has been awarded the coveted Dark Matters Jury Award, presented by Vertigo Entertainment, at the Austin Film Festival (AFF). The prestigious genre prize, announced at AFF’s Awards Luncheon on Saturday, October 26, follows the film’s North American premiere in…
NewCharacter Productions has announced the world premier of Beautiful Smile will be taking place at the 31st Austin Film Festival. Originally conceived during the Melbourne lockdowns and filmed in mid 2022, Beautiful Smile has been a labour of love for the dedicated members of the crew and cast. Based on a real, lived experience, the…
Interview: Natalie Bailey Screen Australia’s Gender Matters Taskforce and Women in Film and Television (WIFT) Australia have today announced feature film Audrey as the first Australian feature to receive a ReFrame Stamp at SXSW Sydney. ReFrame is a collaboration between WIF (formerly known as Women In Film, Los Angeles) and the Sundance Institute. Its ReFrame…
Bondi Icebergs is the most photographed pool in the world. This is where generations of children have learnt to swim, where the diehard have braved the frigid waters of one hundred winters, where the young and beautiful have come to bond and bake in the hot sun. The Pool is a stunning cinematic experience with…
A trailer has dropped for Nathan Bender’s short action thriller, Night of the Ronin, ahead of the film’s festival run which is set to begin over the next few months. After a double cross gone wrong, the unprofessional hitman and his boss’s girl are on the run. After surviving a horrific beat down they retreat…
The Adelaide Film Festival (AFF) has launched its full program for the 2024 festival, to be held from October 23 – November 3. One hundred and twelve films from 46 countries will be presented at AFF 2024 with 15 world premieres and 34 Australian premieres at venues across Adelaide. The world premiere of Kangaroo Island,…
by Matthew Eeles Australian actor and producer Zac Garred has some exciting projects ahead. Known for his roles in the Occupation film series, US medical drama General Hospital, and starring alongside Sam Neill in Bring Him To Me, Garred is now gearing up for two new films. First up is Site Unseen, a black comedy…
Camera d’Or award-winning director Warwick Thornton (Samson & Delilah, The New Boy) has signed on to direct First Warrior, an epic feature film about Australian Aboriginal resistance fighter Pemulwuy. A Bidjigal man of the Sydney tribes, Pemulwuy led a 12-year resistance against British settlers moving into his people’s traditional lands as Australia was colonised in…
Principal photography has wrapped on Enzo Tedeschi’s multiverse time travel film Resonance. Starring Barbara Bingham (Friday the 13th Part 8) and filmed in Sydney in Australia Resonance explores what happens when an archaeologist discovers her family’s century-old secret to manipulate time, and how she must confront her estranged past and an interdimensional threat to save…
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