Ever wanted to know more about your favourite Australian personalities like Jacki Weaver? Thanks to Madman Entertainment, Cinema Australia is giving 5 lucky readers the chance to win a copy of Who Do You Think You Are? on DVD. Australian celebrities play detective as they go in search of their family history. Well-known Australians play…
A new trailer dropped today for Mack Lindon’s Rise. Rise is set to open in Australian cinemas in October of this year. Check it out below. Rise is an Australian true-story movie based on an injustice with a universal theme of hope.
Shot as a one-man crew on a Canon 60d and a rigged-up crude steadicam, Fremantle director JJ DeCeglie’s harrowing film, Jugular, is as independent as Australian cinema comes. And as anyone who’s tried their hand at it will know, independent filmmaking can be a costly endeavour. After successful screenings at underground film festivals around the country, Jugular – a story of one…
A new animated poster for Kriv Stenders’ (Red Dog) Kill Me Three Times dropped a couple of days ago ahead of the film’s screening at the Toronto International Film Festival. You can check it out below. Kill Me Three Times is a feature film directed by Kriv Stenders and starring Simon Pegg, Sullivan Stapleton, Alice Braga,…
Hot on the heels of Austin Film Festival’s early line-up announcement which includes the World Premiere of One Eyed Girl, The Backlot Films is proud to announce its plans to release the South Australian psychological thriller in Australian cinemas during the first quarter of 2015. Starring Tilda Cobham-Hervey (52 Tuesdays) and Mark Leonard Winter (Healing,…
Downriver may have already met its crowd-funding target with punters having pledged just over $40,000, but the film was given a deserving boost recently by Film Victoria. Grant Scicluna’s mystery drama will share in just over a million dollars funding support through Film Victoria’s Assigned Production Investment program. Other feature films to share in the funding will be Lynn-Maree Milburn’s…
Well, we picked it folks! Robert Connolly’s stunning new kid’s film, Paper Planes, was awarded the inaugural CinéfestOZ $100,000 Film Prize. Legendary Australian director, Bruce Beresford announced the winner to an enthusiastic crowd. Connolly was presented with Australia’s richest film prize on Saturday night as part of CinéfestOZ’s Gala Night celebrations in Busselton, in the south west of Western…
Perth peeps only – sorry, we tried. Luna Palace Cinemas is proud to present a Live in Cinema Talking Pictures Q&A screening session with special guests Australian actor/screenwriter Joel Edgerton and leading director Matthew Saville who will present and talk about their acclaimed stylish psychological thriller Felony, on Monday 25 August at Luna Leederville following the 6.30pm session. The evening…
Magic Miles Written by Audrey Lam: The starting point of Magic Miles was that I felt like there was a bunch of art and music – together with small everyday but somehow ecstatic stuff – going on around me, that seemed quite wonderfully joined in a tenuous but breathtaking way, by their shared thrill and…
Shooting wraps today on new Australian feature film TEENAGE KICKS. After five weeks of principal photography in Sydney’s inner-west, south-eastern and northern suburbs the cast and crew have formed a strong bond and are incredibly proud of their achievements on the independently funded film. On the experience of principal photography, writer/director Craig Boreham says, “The TEENAGE KICKS set has been such a great hub of collaboration…
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