Barry Pepper, Sam Neill and Rachel Griffiths to star in Luke Sparke’s mob-thriller, Bring Him to Me

Primetime Emmy Award-Winner and Golden Globe Nominee, Barry Pepper (Saving Private Ryan, The Green Mile, Maze Runner) takes the lead in feature film Bring Him to Me, currently shooting in Queensland, Australia with director Luke Sparke (Occupation Rainfall) and writer Tom Evans. Barry Pepper first shot to fame with his break-through role of a bible-quoting sniper in Stephen Spielberg’s drama, Saving Private…

Cameras set to wrap on Warwick Thornton’s The New Boy

Award-winning First Nations filmmaker Warwick Thornton’s spiritual drama The New Boy wraps this week in regional South Australia, with major production funding from Screen Australia’s First Nations Department alongside Fremantle and Gretel Packer’s Longbridge Nominees, who join producers Kath Shelper for Scarlett Pictures; and Cate Blanchett, Andrew Upton, Georgie Pym and Coco Francini for Dirty…

Interview: Tristan Barr and Stephen Phillips

In 2017, Tristan Barr launched his feature filmmaking career by co-directing, co-writing, co-producing and co-starring in Watch the Sunset.  The fast-paced one-shot action thriller was a hit on the festival circuit around the world and was quickly picked up by Australian streamer Stan where the film is still available to watch. With Barr’s Watch the…

Inclusive film series follows people with disability carving careers

An all-inclusive film series made by people living with disability, about people living with disability, is shining a light on the value of diversity in the workforce. Fearless Films Season 4 features six people who are engaged in meaningful employment – be it entrepreneurial or within a business – normalising disability in the workforce and…

All the winners from the 2022 WA Screen Culture Awards

Cheeky comedy-drama How to Please a Woman scooped a pleasing four awards (out of six nominations) at the 2022 WA Screen Culture Awards held on Sunday 4 December at Luna Cinemas Leederville – including Innovation in Narrative Feature Film with a budget over $1m; Outstanding Achievement in Editing – Merlin Eden; Outstanding Achievement in Performance – Hayley…

Interview: Daniel Webber

Yesterday I published my interview with Seriously Red writer, creator and star Krew Boylan, so who better to follow it up with today than Krew’s co-star, Daniel Webber. I’ve admired Daniel’s work since first seeing him in Rhys Graham’s 2013 drama, Galore, in which his acting ability was on full display. In this rowdy and…

Nominees revealed for the 2022 WA Screen Culture Awards

Celebrating the achievement, innovation and ambition of our local industry, the WA Screen Culture Awards (WASCAs) embrace all forms from new, established and emerging screen practices.  Now in its third year the WASCAs will be held on Sunday 4 December at Luna Cinemas Leederville hosted by comedian Joe White. “Everyone involved in the WASCAs including…

Australian screen icons descend on Parliament House with one message – Make It Australian

A delegation of Australian screen industry heavyweights arrived at Parliament House yesterday as proud campaign ambassadors of the Make It Australian campaign, where they, alongside a large number of screen industry leaders, converged to lobby politicians to support our industry’s future. After a successful national launch of a reimagined Make It Australian Campaign in June 2022, SPA,…

Interview: Alice Maio Mackay

I’m well aware that it’s a cliché to describe a fresh filmmaking talent as “one to keep an eye on”, but in Alice Maio Mackay’s case there’s no better way for me to introduce this extrordinarly talented young filmmaker. And when I say young, I mean it literally. At just eighteen years old, Alice is…

Interview: Scott Price and Bruce Gladwin

Australia’s internationally acclaimed Back to Back Theatre, a professional theatre company with an ensemble of actors with disabilities at its core, revealed their new film Shadow to the world when it screened at SXSW earlier this year where the film was awarded the SXSW Visions Audience Award. Shadow is directed by Bruce Gladwin, co-produced by Alice Fleming…