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…
Prima Lux Films, in collaboration with La Rosa Productions, is excited to announce that their latest thriller Freelance has been acquired by Radioactive Pictures for distribution across Australia and New Zealand. Directed by acclaimed Melbourne-based filmmaker John Balazs, Freelance offers a nightmarish journey into desperation, moral compromise, and terror, drawing comparisons to Joel Schumacher’s 8MM…
Lunar Pictures announced today that principal photography has commenced in Sydney, Australia on psychological creature thriller The Room Below from AACTA Award-nominated writer and director Kurt Martin (Moon Rock for Monday). Alyssa Sutherland (Vikings, Evil Dead Rise), Jonathan Rhys Meyers (The Tudors, Dracula), Bobby Gilchrist (Shapeless, The Invisible Raptor) and Gilbert Bradman (Transfusion, The Twelve)…
Award-winning critic Andrew F. Peirce invites you on an unforgettable journey through the vibrant landscape of contemporary Australian cinema. From heart-pounding horror to intimate documentaries, sweeping historical dramas to side-splitting comedies, discover over fifty films that capture the resilient creative force of Australian filmmakers in the early 2020s. Through in-depth interviews with over seventy Australian…
HALO Films, WA’s leading independent distribution company, is proud to announce an exciting new global distribution partnership with independent Australian distributor Bounty Films. The agreement will see HALO Film feature productions enter into a joint distribution arrangement with Bounty Films who will release HALO Films’ content across multiple formats, including: TVOD (Transactional Video On Demand)…
With three weeks to go before Monster Fest 2024 arrives simultaneously in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, we’ve put together your complete list of Australian feature films screening throughout the festival. Now in its thirteenth year, Monster Fest is an ode to all that is weird and wonderful in the international and local cult cinema…
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