Here at Cinema Australia, we often cite Davo Hardy as being one of the busiest independent filmmakers around. His latest streak of productivity continues to uphold that assessment, as he presently has a short film, his sixth feature and a small TV cameo on the go, all at once. Earlier this year, Davo dropped the surprise short doco,…
AACTA-nominated writer/director Ryan Cauchi and Matt Ferro (The Matrix, Happy Feet) have joined forces to create scripted Maltese-Australian horror drama series Greystanes, with 15 x 1- minute episodes to be released exclusively on TikTok. A recipient of Screen Australia, NZ On Air and TikTok’s Every Voice initiative, the series is currently in production, for release…
The momentous 70th Sydney Film Festival program was officially launched today by Sydney Film Festival Director Nashen Moodley, with a bumper line-up featuring the Australian premieres of new films including Warwick Thornton’s latest masterpiece The New Boy, starring Cate Blanchett; Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City; Celine Song’s highly anticipated Past Lives; films direct from the Cannes…
The filmmakers from Storyland, in conjunction with BirdLife Australia and distributor Antidote Films, will hold the world premiere of award-winning director Randall Wood’s Flyways – The Untold Story of Migratory Shorebirds on May 6 at the Majestic Cinema in Wynnum, Queensland. Flyways follows teams of scientists and amateur bird enthusiasts across the world as they…
Adding to its impressive slate of upcoming films, Sydney-based distributor Screen Inc. has picked up the Australian and New Zealand rights to Alastair Newton Brown’s gripping debut, Here Be Dragons. “We’re so excited about acquiring the Australian and New Zealand distribution rights to Here Be Dragons,” says Screen Inc. managing director Dov Kornits, fresh off…
Canadian actor Merritt Patterson (The Royals) and Joshua Sasse (Love Is In The Air, Monarch) come together in the new feature romance, One Perfect Match, now shooting at locations across Brisbane. This latest feature film from Jaggi Entertainment is written by Ansley Gordon and directed by Jo-Anne Brechin (When Love Springs, Zelos) and further cements Queensland’s…
With their new documentary, The Giants, filmmakers Laurence Billiet and Rachael Antony have created an affectionate portrait of one of Australia’s most recognisable identities – former leader of The Greens Party, staunch environmental activist, folk hero and gay icon, Bob Brown. A follow up to their television hit, Freeman, Laurence and Rachael inject The Giants…
Sydney cinephiles will be treated to an unmissable 30th anniversary screening of cult classic, Bad Boy Bubby, with director Rolf de Heer and star Nicholas Hope in attendance for a post-screening Q&A. Confined to a two-room slum for his whole life, Bubby (Hope) knows only of the existence of himself and his mother (Claire Benito),…
Award-winning filmmaker, Warwick Thornton’s spiritual drama The New Boy has been selected for this years’ Cannes Film Festival Un Certain Regard program. This is the second film from Thornton to appear at the festival, after winning the Caméra d’Or Award forSamson & Delilah in 2009. The New Boy stars Cate Blanchett, Deborah Mailman, Wayne Blair,…
Brace yourself, the trailer for horror film Talk to Me has launched, ahead of its nationwide cinema release on July 27. Talk to Me is the directorial debut from twin brothers Danny and Michael Philippou, aka RackaRacka, which follows a group of friends who discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand. The friends…
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