Four years after a dedicated group of 150 crew members converged on Sydney’s Western Suburbs to create Australian independent film, Damaged, this coming-of-age feature is finally near completion at Spectrum Films, Fox Studios. For first time director, actress and producer, Maha Wilson, Damaged has been both a challenging and rewarding experience, especially for a female in a…
We put the call out and you answered in droves. We were overwhelmed by the number of readers who took the time to vote for the best Australian film of 2014 and we greatly appreciate everyone’s enthusiasm for this inaugural award. Below you’ll find the top five films as voted by you, including the winner…
Written by Glenn Triggs (Director): I had just finished a feature horror film in 2009 called Cinemaphobia which was about a group of young adults that are slaughtered at a horror movie marathon by a killer who wears a mirror as a face. It was a two year process and heaps of fun with around…
Long Shot – Written by Connor Harvey: When you’ve spent the last three years of your life on a media degree at university, you’d want to hope you got something out of it. Everything I have worked on has led to this final project. I believe that my short film, Long Shot, is a good…
The State Government of Victoria has promised a $3.8 million four-year renewal of the Melbourne International Film Festival MIFF Premiere Fund, which provides strategic minority co-financing to new Australian films that then go on to premiere at MIFF. “The MIFF Premiere Fund’s continuation is important for MIFF, audiences, local filmmakers, and the State’s creative economy,” said…
West Coast Visions is a development initiative offering $750,000 of production investment funding for up to one feature film project per year. It is one of ScreenWest’s largest funds. The program is designed to uncover, inspire and develop local projects and skills. Recent West Coast Visions films have had great success on the national and international festival…
The team behind new Australian film The Legend of Ben Hall are calling on supporters to help raise $75,000 to start shooting new scenes required for the feature length version of their film. Producers of the film hope that The Legend of Ben Hall will be the first in a “proposed trilogy of bushranger feature films, that will…
Cult classic Fat Pizza collides with the Logie winning comedy Housos in Fat Pizza Vs Housos The Movie. Paul Fenech will make special cinema appearances in Perth on 26 & 27 November to promote his new movie Fat Pizza Vs Housos in cinemas everywhere 27 November Fat Pizza Vs Housos (MA 15+) is Paul Fenech’s riotous follow-up to Housos vs.…
Cinema Nova will host a special Q&A screening of director Chris Sun’s Charlie’s Farm. The Director will be joined by American horror actor Bill Moseley and Charlie himself, Nathan Jones. Director Chris Sun (Daddy’s Girl and Come And Get Me) returns with this chilling, Aussie outback slasher flick. At the back of beyond lies an abandoned…
A group of young Australian filmmakers is celebrating after their film, One Eyed Girl won the Jury Award at this year’s Austin Film Festival in the Dark Matters category. The South Australian psychological thriller is the second feature film to take out the Dark Matters Award, after it was introduced to the AFF program last…
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