Screenwest is pleased to announce Western Australian social impact documentary, Hard As Puck, is the successful recipient of the 2024 Brian Beaton Award. The highly regarded Brian Beaton Award recognises the valuable contribution esteemed late documentary producer Brian Beaton made to the Western Australian screen industry. The award honours his memory by awarding a grant to a…
A tale of young love with a touch of horror, Your Love is Mine is available to rent or buy on digital platforms in Australia, New Zealand, North America, the United Kingdom and Ireland. A bucolic tale of young love marked by tragedy, which then takes a left turn into horror, Your Love is Mine tells the…
Victorian filmmaker Genna Chanelle Hayes has announced plans to produce her upcoming feature film Olivia in regional Victoria later this year. Production is set to take place in Ballarat and Melbourne, with the acclaimed young director using her sophomore feature film to tackle violence against women. “This is obviously an issue which I am deeply…
Finalists in the 2024 CinefestOZ Short Film Competition have been ahead of the Short Film Awards, which will be held next Thursday 5 September in Margaret River as part of Australia’s largest destination film festival (31 August to 8 September). Recognising exceptional storytelling and talent in the short filmmaking sector of the Australian film industry…
Christmas comes early this year with Blue Canaries, the directorial debut from writer-director team Mounsey Lane – Luke Mounsey and Andy Lane. A ground-level look at a not-so-average night on the job for two Australian street cops, Blue Canaries is a layered examination of the nature of police work, delivered as a ticking clock thriller, set on a sweltering Christmas Eve, where rookie probational…
Maslow Entertainment today announced that the highly anticipated First Nations psychological horror film The Moogai, will be released in cinemas in Australia on 31 October 2024. The Moogai received its World Premiere at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, and its Australian Premiere at the 2024 Sydney Film Festival, where it won the GIO Audience Award for…
Frantales Productions is thrilled to announce the upcoming release of Buried, a darkly funny new five-part digital series about theschool drop-off run from hell. Supported by Screen Australia and VicScreen, produced by Fran Derham (Surviving Summer, First Love), and created by talented Victorian duo Miriam Glaser (Utopia, Why Are You Like This) and Charlotte George…
Thanks to our friends at Madman, we have 10 in-season double passes to giveaway to see Kid Snow. When a washed-up tent boxer gets one last shot to make a name for himself, he’s forced to choose between old dreams and new love. Kid Snow was shot in Kalgoorlie, Coolgardie and areas of Perth and…
For My Mother, a new short drama is set to debut next year – made by Attic Films in association with Sugarland Productions. On the way to a school recital, a mother and son get into a volatile argument that unveils the vast space between them. For My Mother explores themes of parenthood, relationships, and…
Now in its 3rd year, the CinefestOZ x WIFT Australia Writers’ Retreat, set for 1 – 4 September 2024, has selected the four participants for this year’s program. The West-Australian based creative writing incubator will welcome Victorian Danielle Stamoulos, Tasmanian Lynn Reed, and West Australians Hayley Reeve and Yasmin Kassim to Busselton next month where…
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